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From: als@tusc.com.au (Anthony Shipman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ELF and dynamic loading (Re: 386BSD vs Linux)
Date: 14 Nov 1994 19:35:26 +1100
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In <3a4a2o$d7m@j51.com> fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk) writes:
>Try to compile Perl 5.000 and see how dlopen/dlclose works under
>Solaris. Linux has a good ELF implementation if not better. i486-linuxelf
>has a better support for dlopen/dlclose than UnixWare, although
>UnixWare can use binutils 2.5.3 to improve that :-).
Does the ELF implementation have a clone of the SVR4 libelf.a? This
would be a very useful thing to have for source portability from SVR4.
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