Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 17:10:07 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), mike@smith.net.au, hsu@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: shared library with static Motif? Message-ID: <199712070640.RAA00701@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Dec 1997 16:17:06 PDT." <199712062317.QAA06878@mt.sri.com>
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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
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