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Subject: Re: svn commit: r227798 - in head: . lib/libpam lib/libpam/modules
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Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> writes:
> Although this will work, I think it trades the quality of the binaries
> for a cleaner build system. It is better to pass all libraries to ld(1)
> even though a .so may have unresolved references: the NEEDED entry
> serves as an additional protection against version mismatches and symbol
> versioning (if you ever add it) requires ld(1) to have access to the .so
> containing the definition so it knows the version name to store in the
> output file.

These are plugins.  The names and prototypes of the functions they
export were set in stone 15 years ago.

DES
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