Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!oliveb!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: Pyramid Support of Shared Libraries Message-ID: <79957@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 6 Aug 89 07:42:24 GMT References: <17347@bellcore.bellcore.com> Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 18 In article <17347@bellcore.bellcore.com> Victor Scott Gregg writes: >Question for the net: Save some net bandwidth, and ask your salescritter. >Could some one send me a pointer to information on Pyramid support for >shared libraries? Pyramid does not support shared libraries in either OSx 5.0 (current) or 5.1 (planned). It is a win on smaller systems, like workstations and 3B2's, but not as important on a large system as a lot of other things we could be working on. Implementing shared libraries would mean changing binary file formats, something that was a more-pain-that-gain proposition. Note that binaries from OSx 2.1 will still run under OSx 5.0, five years later, even on the MIServer. Not forcing the customers to recompile everything at every major release is something that has been pretty important to the company.