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Date:      Thu, 04 Jan 1996 11:45:59 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, gj@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Anyone got GNU `dld' ported to FreeBSD? 
Message-ID:  <29342.820784759@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 11:35:08 PST." <199601041935.LAA29522@netcom22.netcom.com> 

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> > Ours works just fine too, but I can't use dynamic linking from a
> > statically-linked application, which is what sysinstall needs to be.
> 
> Dynamic linking == modules are linked in before main() is entered.
> Runtime linking == modules can be linked in on the fly (from main()
> 		   or any routine called from it)
> 
> I believe you should be able to do runtime linking from your
> statically linked app. too.  I vaguely recall Paul
> Kranenburg made some changes in June/July timeframe that
> made this possible.  I can be mistaken though as I haven't
> played with this in a while.

Well, I don't know what PK's been up to lately, but you certainly
can't use dl* from a static app on FreeBSD..

					Jordan



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