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Date:      Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:31:09 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
Cc:        brandon@engulf.net, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ppp libalias 
Message-ID:  <199806050531.WAA00495@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:21:30 EDT." <199806050221.WAA15564@lor.watermarkgroup.com> 

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> > Brandon Lockhart  <brandon@engulf.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > I remember there was a discussion, I didn't think this pertained to me.
> > > How do we fix this ppp libalias problem?
> > 
> > The easiest work-around is to create a symlink "/usr/lib/libalias.so.2.5"
> > that points to "/usr/lib/aout/libalias.so.2.5".
> 
> I don't see any compelling reason why dynamic loading is really needed.
> IMHO, this is just a bad programming practice.

Plenty of good reasons, most of them related to size.

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