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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.194251.27420@fwi.uva.nl>
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- References: <BzI0Ls.GGo@shakti.ncst.ernet.in> <id.BD0W.W0I@ferranti.com> <1992Dec22.000823.1429@ultra.com> <1992Dec22.102212.3849@uhura1.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:42:51 GMT
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- bryan@uhura1.uucp (A. Bryan Curnutt) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec22.000823.1429@ultra.com> shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr}) writes:
- >>
- >> I don't know
- >>why, but apparently some 3rd party vendors do use -Bstatic, so their
- >>applications won't work on Solaris 2.
-
- >A few of them do it so their customers won't have to buy additional
- >runtime libraries (such as the FORTRAN runtime library) in order
- >to run their software.
-
- Yes. But that's no reason to -Bstatic everything. Sun told them a looong
- time ago: whatever you do, link dynamically WITH LIBC.
-
- Complain loudly to your software vendors.
-
- Casper
-