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Re: self contained library
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Philip Willoughby |
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Re: self contained library |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:08:19 +0000 (GMT) |
Today, Ricardo Fabbri wrote:
>On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
>
>> Do you mean by "self-contained" that it should even contain the C library
>> functions it uses?
>>
>
>I don't want the C library and system libraries to be in the "self-contained"
>library. I will require the user to have libc6, for example. What I do not
>want is non-programmers having to install or compile a whole list of not very
>common dependencies (which is numerous for my project).
Why not just build a tarball of all the dependencies - at least that way
you don't have to worry about building a .a from PIC objects and building
one big .so from it.
You also don't have to worry about future comaptibility - just because it
works now doesn't mean it always will...
Regards,
Philip Willoughby
Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK
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