On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:27:02AM -0600, Jack Brown wrote: > > Great explanation..
Thanks. :) > The problem is that if you have lib-something.so in /lib and > lib-something.a in /usr/lib, then when a package goes looking for > lib-something to link into it's package it looks to /usr/lib sees the > lib-something.a file and then stops looking any further and links > against the static library instead of the dynamic one. Aha! So there is a method to this madness. I hereby reject my claim to organization. :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
