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From: db@sunbim.be (Danny Backx)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Motif 1.1.2 and SunOS shlib
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Date: 13 Jun 91 07:37:08 GMT
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In article <9106031823.AA01972@sirius> tsang@ISI.COM (Kam C. Tsang) writes:
>> How hard is it to make SunOS shared libraries for Motif 1.1.2? 
>
>Building sharable library for motif is easy.  Just compile the motif
>files with the -pic flag and link the object files (ld -o libXm.so.1.1
>-assert pure-text *.o) .

Well, if you do just that, your libraries won't REALLY be shared. Motif will
write into some variables inside your "shared" library at run time, and as
a consequence, the initially shared library will be duplicated by SunOS.

You'll have to do better than that.

By the way, the split of the library in two is really not necessary. Use
-PIC on SPARC instead of -pic. It's in the manual.

	Danny Backx
	System Engineer, BIM Networks

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