[Spread-users] Static vs. Shared libraries...

[Theo Schlossnagle]

On Saturday, August 10, 2002, at 07:51 , Sean Chittenden wrote:
> Hrm, drat.  Not quite the answer I was hoping for.  There's a shared
> lib target in the Makefile though???  Are there any ill-consequences
> of using a shared lib over a static one?  -sc

None whatsoever (except the typical issues with shared libraries).  The 
autoconf patch I posted a while back has Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD and Mac 
OS X shared library support -- and perhaps a few other 
unintentionally :-)


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