Window system bashing (was Re: X11 bashing)

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <7246 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

>Improved in V.4, actually; when you link a program, you get shared
>libraries if they exist, unless you ask *not* to get them, unlike V.3
>where you have to explicitly ask for the shared version when you link
>(if you don't have to on your system, somebody changed it from the way
>AT&T did it).

I believe the default was changed to link with shared libraries
starting with 3.2.x for some value of x. Actually, the  dependency
is not on the version of the OS but rather on the version of the
C compiler package.
    
Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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