From:	Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Shared libraries
Date:	Wed, 28 May 1997 12:48:57 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> There is a trade-off here between polluting the disk and reliable
> operation (what would be your first reaction when a just-unzipped
> program won't run saying something like "couldn't file djgpp.dll:
> ENOENT"?), and most people prefer the latter, especially since disk
> storage is so cheap these days.

In addition to this I have an other example. When I made my first
linux version of RHIDE I linked it using the shared libraries. Then
I took it here at university and tried it on our PPro 200 and I got
a segfault. But the same program linked static worked OK.

As you can see, using shared libs is not always the best solution.

Robert
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