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Date:      Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:35:43 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r227798 - in head: . lib/libpam lib/libpam/modules
Message-ID:  <861uszkfgw.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20111122204154.GA14090@stack.nl> (Jilles Tjoelker's message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:41:55 %2B0100")
References:  <201111211640.pALGedXg051270@svn.freebsd.org> <20111122204154.GA14090@stack.nl>

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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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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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