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Subject: Re: shared library with static Motif? 
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From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> But, aside from legalities the real issue hasn't been answered.  Is it
> *technically* possible to link in a 'static' library into a 'shared'
> library so that the end-user doesn't need a Motif library to get access
> to the shared library?

Fairly obviously, no.  Shared libraries are built PIC, as their load 
address is not known (and may vary across different mappings of a given 
copy).  Static libraries are fixed up at link time, as offsets in them 
are relative to their position in the executable, which is loaded at a 
known (fixed) address.

mike