Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!husc6!mailrus!umix!metavax!chris
From: chris@metavax.UUCP ( PSA)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question Re: Configuration Management
Message-ID: <2984@metavax.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 88 15:28:14 GMT
References: <497@aimt.UUCP> <5257@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: chris@metavax.UUCP (Chris Collins)
Organization: Meta Systems, Ltd. -- Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <5257@well.UUCP> pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
 
>One problem peculiar to Unix is caused by the brain-damaged library
>system.  Let's say you have a .c file with 20 marginally related
>routines in it.  You make it into a library, then write a program
>that uses only one of those routines.  When you link it, guess what
>happens?  All 20 routines get pulled into your executable.
 
I hate to say this, but why isn't such a linker the standard on Unix?
It seems to me that if Unix is _the_ system for programmers, as it has
been described to me several times, why does this idiocy exist?  What
good is a linker that is so stupid, other than it's all there is?  One
supposed Unix guru tried to tell me that this actually made the linker
smarter!!!!!!   (I replied by asking how he removed his lobotomy scar.)

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