Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Sean Rima
Originally to: Bob Batson -=> Bob Batson wrote to All <=- BB> At 4:16 PM -0500 8/16/02, Ray Olszewski wrote: >Originally to: All > > >If you have not seen your mail on the list, then almost certainly something >is wrong at your end. This is the *third* time I have seen this message >this

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Bob Batson
At 4:16 PM -0500 8/16/02, Ray Olszewski wrote: >Originally to: All > > >If you have not seen your mail on the list, then almost certainly something >is wrong at your end. This is the *third* time I have seen this message >this morning. [snip] I too am receiving multiple copies of more than one

(fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Axel Siebenwirth
Originally to: All Sorry, I haven't seen my mail get to the list. So here goes it again. - Forwarded message from Axel Siebenwirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Hi, I have some stupid questions. What makes the difference between .o and .so files? What is their use? Is it just a naming conven

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
Originally to: All At 12:17 PM 8/15/02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > It's been so long since I used a .a libraries, I didn't recall how they > > were created. They are the old-format libraries I referred to above. They > > are kept around, at le

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Originally to: All On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > It's been so long since I used a .a libraries, I didn't recall how they > were created. They are the old-format libraries I referred to above. They > are kept around, at least on full-size Linux installs, mainly for legacy > reasons

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-16 Thread Ray Olszewski
Originally to: All If you have not seen your mail on the list, then almost certainly something is wrong at your end. This is the *third* time I have seen this message this morning. Are you sure you are subscribed? Might your MTA or MUA be filtering out messages that are From: your own addre

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-15 Thread lawson_whitney
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 12:17 PM 8/15/02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >In case you want to make a static executable (one that does not require > >dynamic linking. Nost distro's link /sbin/ldconfig static so you can > >use it to recover when you mess up your librar

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-15 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 12:17 PM 8/15/02 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > It's been so long since I used a .a libraries, I didn't recall how they > > were created. They are the old-format libraries I referred to above. They > > are kept around, at least on full-size Linu

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-15 Thread lawson_whitney
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > It's been so long since I used a .a libraries, I didn't recall how they > were created. They are the old-format libraries I referred to above. They > are kept around, at least on full-size Linux installs, mainly for legacy > reasons. Don't use them unle

Re: (fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-15 Thread Ray Olszewski
If you have not seen your mail on the list, then almost certainly something is wrong at your end. This is the *third* time I have seen this message this morning. Are you sure you are subscribed? Might your MTA or MUA be filtering out messages that are From: your own address? At 05:34 PM 8/15

(fwd) .so, .a and .o-files

2002-08-15 Thread Axel Siebenwirth
Sorry, I haven't seen my mail get to the list. So here goes it again. - Forwarded message from Axel Siebenwirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Hi, I have some stupid questions. What makes the difference between .o and .so files? What is their use? Is it just a naming convention? When I want to