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> From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 17:33:59 GMT
> 
> What if the installation of a (stable, robust) networking library
> merged it into libc?  I.E., instead of establishing a separate
> library, "make install" for the networking library components would
> add the ".o" files into libc, thus providing a single source for
> linker resolution?  Along with installing all the networking headers
> in "standard" include directories, of course.

I don't like the idea of a package that frobs the standard libraries.
I think it is better to simply make networking to libc.a, if a stable
and mature networking library is available.  But someone should do the
hard work of figuring out the problems and submitting patches to
include that.