On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >As the supplied ld doesn't support shared libraries, Lesstif compiles as
> >static. However, /usr/X11/lib contains libXt.sa, libXt.so.6, and
> >libXt.so.6.0. Does this mean they're all shared? I thought a.out didn't
> >support shared libraries?
>
> It's possible to support shared libraries with a.out but building them is a
> pretty gruesome process involving the DLL tools. Glibc has no support for
> this but the old libc4 does. I think the binutils linker has all the
> necessary bits in to make it work.
OK, thanks. Looks like I'll have to convince the X makefiles to build a
static libXt - after compiling the 130MB of X source for a couple of days
(on an ARM610 machine), it decided to segfault in the vital place... I'll
see if I can have another go at some point...
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