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From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
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To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
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Subject: Re: Demand loading (Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI) 
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> 
> I'm keen on ELF so that I don't have to compile everything in a library
> twice to get shared libraries. I'd also be keen to get rid of ldconfig 
> and ld.so.cache. (Am I only doing this because I've never questioned the
> shared-lib build rules we were given for X11?)

AFAIK, you *don't* have to re-compiled everything twice to get shared
libraries.  You can use PIC code in the libraries if you want, although
you will take a performance hit for using PIC code in static
executables.  If Linux is doing this, then they *should* be compiling
stuff without -PIC because of performance.


Nate