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Date:      Sun, 09 Mar 1997 02:38:50 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   gcc -shared as substitute for ld -Bshareable?
Message-ID:  <24425.857903930@time.cdrom.com>

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I've been working with some large software packages which seem
to assume that ``gcc -shared ..objs.. -o outfile'' is equivalent
to our more familiar ``ld -Bshareable ..objs.. -o outfile'', but
the former doesn't work under FreeBSD - a full link is attempted.

Examining these build files, it really does look like Linux and SunOS
gcc supports -shared flag handling semantics rather different than
ours.  Any reason we should be gratuitously different?  Shall I file a
PR against this, or is it someone's idea of a feature? :-)

					Jordan



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