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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Subject: Re: [9fans] impressive 
Date: Tue,  9 May 2006 21:03:00 -0700
To: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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On May 9, 2006, at 8:35 PM, David Arnold wrote:

> the benefit of libtool is that it centralises the magic required to
> produce a shared library across various operating systems,  
> compilers and
> linkers.  it's a tradeoff most people are willing to make.

And that's the other half of the problem I've been working on:  
getting the code to build with static linkage.  It's the only way  
around linux shared library hell.