shared libraries

[Eric A Pearce]

Does anybody other than SGI itself create shared libraries?
I'm looking for some clear, very detailed examples of how to create one.
Are there any tools that automate the process?  It looks like a
painful process to do all that by hand.  

I've converted a lot of code to use shared libraries under SunOS, as
all it usually involved was compiling with "-pic".

This would be a big win for those monster executables that packages 
such as Motif generate.  And how about those times when you want to
run your package on machines with different hardware?   Imagine
changing a shared libc to include the sun and bsd functions instead
of re-linking all your code.   

I did notice that the 3.3 documentation is for the Iris instead of the
ATT 3b2 in previous releases!  

-e

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