[openbeosnetteam] Re: Open-beos-cvs digest, Vol 1 #1752 - 7 msgs

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> AFAIK, the symlinks are only a work-around for PEF. ELF supports a 
> shared object name (settable via `-soname') which is intended to do 
> the 
> same trick. It currently isn't set properly for the applications we 
> build (will fix this), but it should be of interest only when you 
> rename the app you originally linked against, anyway, or when your 
> application loads add-ons originally written for another application.
> 
> Well, that's at least how I believe it works. Please correct me, if 
> I'm 
> wrong.

AFAICT that it - and I would like very much if we could fix this with 
OpenBeOS, that is, kill the PEF legacy and have full ELF functionality.
Anyway, even if we do that in R1, we probably shouldn't rely on it now 
:)

Adios...
   Axel.

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