Re: Linking COMPLETELY statically???

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Scott McMillan (scott++at++er)
Tue, 7 May 1996 14:31:54 -0400 (EDT)

Let me try to answer my own question...

I am guessing that even in libpfdu.a's version of pfLoadFile it is doing a
dlsym and dlopen after it parses the filename and then dynamically linking in
the appropriate loader...(it defeats the purpose of linking statically,
IMHO).

With this assumption, what I have to do to get around this is to
bypass the pfdLoadFile function, parse the input file names myself, call the
appropriate loader directly (e.g., pfdLoadFile_iv) using a case/switch or
whatever, and make sure that during the link phase, I include every static
libpfdb library that I account for in my case statement (e.g., libpfiv.a).

Am I right?

If so, couldn't this have been done in libpfdu.a, in the first place?

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