Shared Libraries - Your Thoughts Wanted

Craig Ruff (cruff@niwot.scd.ucar.EDU)
Thu, 28 Sep 1995 09:31:00 -0600


I'm looking into implementing shared libraries.

If someone else is well along the way to getting this done - let me know so
I don't duplicate the effort.

Otherwise, I have some questions that others may have an opinion about.

How important do you think it is to duplicate how OSF/1 (DEC Unix) implements
shared libraries? Is running OSF/1 shared executables really that important?

How committed are you to the ECOFF executable format? Would you be adverse
to adopting ELF so we can take advantage of the (apparently) simple to use
shared library code that exists for ELF?

Craig Ruff NCAR cruff@ncar.ucar.edu
(303) 497-1211 P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307