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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Install from CD fails
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:17:13 -0400
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> Shared libraries would help a lot here.

Available data seem to suggest it might be a pyrrhic victory.

There is a venerable hack which I think I saw in the BSD
world (but which is probably older than that) by which
N program's main()'s are renamed to be foo_main() and
everything is linked together into one huge executable
with a main() which dispatches based on argv[0].  It's
crufty but the win is you end up with 1 printf() instead
of N.

Dave Eckhardt