Re: need libbsd.so.1.0.0

1996-09-04 Thread Dominik Kubla
Hi Joost, you wrote: > But if you've got the .a file, cannot you make the .so file by: > > mkdir t > cd t > ar -x ../libbsd.a > gcc -o libbsd.so.1.0.0 -shared -W,l-soname,libbsd.so.1 *.o > > (I may well be _very_ wrong, and please flame me if I am, > but I just _think_ it would work, and it's ea

Re: need libbsd.so.1.0.0

1996-09-04 Thread David Engel
joost witteveen writes: > > > The current implementation of postgres95 for Debian requires > > > libbsd.so.1.0.0, but the libc5 package includes only libbsd.a. > > > (How) can I make libbsd.so.1.0.0 from the .a file? > > > (Sorry to be asking what I imagine is such a naive question.) > > > > I ha

Re: need libbsd.so.1.0.0

1996-09-04 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) > But if you've got the .a file, cannot you make the .so file by: > > mkdir t > cd t > ar -x ../libbsd.a > gcc -o libbsd.so.1.0.0 -shared -W,l-soname,libbsd.so.1 *.o > > (I may well be _very_ wrong, and please flame me if I am, > but I just _think_ it woul

Re: need libbsd.so.1.0.0

1996-09-04 Thread Guy Maor
On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, joost witteveen wrote: > But if you've got the .a file, cannot you make the .so file by: > > mkdir t > cd t > ar -x ../libbsd.a > gcc -o libbsd.so.1.0.0 -shared -W,l-soname,libbsd.so.1 *.o Unless the .o files were compiled with -fpic, you'd have an unsharable shared lib - not

Re: need libbsd.so.1.0.0

1996-09-03 Thread joost witteveen
> > On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > > The current implementation of postgres95 for Debian requires > > libbsd.so.1.0.0, but the libc5 package includes only libbsd.a. > > (How) can I make libbsd.so.1.0.0 from the .a file? > > (Sorry to be asking what I imagine is such a naive quest

Re: need libbsd.so.1.0.0

1996-09-03 Thread David Engel
On Mon, 2 Sep 1996, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > The current implementation of postgres95 for Debian requires > libbsd.so.1.0.0, but the libc5 package includes only libbsd.a. > (How) can I make libbsd.so.1.0.0 from the .a file? > (Sorry to be asking what I imagine is such a naive question.) I have