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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:00:54 +0100
From: Paolo Pisati <piso@FreeBSD.org>
To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
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Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 108717 for review
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On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:03:01PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> If nobody links with them directly (for example if those are plugins  
> which are loaded at runtime only when they are needed), you can use  
> OLD_FILES for them instead of OLD_LIBS.
> 
> The goal of OLD_LIBS is to not remove libs which may break  
> applications when they are not available. For this reason symlinks to  
> libs and static libs (libXXX.a) are removed with OLD_FILES, it doesn't  
> hurt at program startup time if those are not available.

ok, i'll use OLD_FILES then.

bye
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Paolo

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