Re: shared libraries

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From: Rabelais editors
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 00:00

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Colin Irwin (cirwin@extro.ucc.su.oz.au) wrote:
: I'm having trouble compiling programs which use shared libraries under
: Xwindows. I've read all the man pages available and as far as I can work
: out, is that if a shared library is available and the -l option is used
: during the compiling process the shared library is used.

: However for my situations this is not the case, and I end up with
: binaries that are very large (ie. > 1M). This is purely because a
: statice binary is being created. This is not want I want.

: As I have almost all the required X libraries I'd much rather have
: dynamically linked binaries.

: Any help would be appreciated.

make sure -g is not included in CFLAGS or LDDFLAGS etc.
It's my understanding that building a binary for debugging causes it to be
linked statically.
JP

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Date: 1996/08/14
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