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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <16039@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 18:52:15 GMT
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >> 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.
-
- Then it appears those third-party vendors need to be taught that
- "-Bstatic" is a positional flag, and that there's a "-Bdynamic" as well;
- just because you link statically with library A, you don't necessarily
- have to link statically with all the other libraries your program is
- linked with.
-