On Oct-07, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 9:55 PM +0200 10/7/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > >Steve Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Clearly, I'm not very experienced with dealing with these things across > >> platforms, so I was hoping somebody (Andy?) might have a better sense > >> for what these things are called. > > > >AOL ;) > > Heh. If Andy doesn't have a good name, let's call them shareable and > loadable libraries, LD_SHARE_FLAGS and LD_LOAD_FLAGS for the flags, > and SHARE_EXT and LOAD_EXT for the extensions. (All subject to > wholesale pitching if there's a better name :)
Well, its bit longer than the $(SO) that we have everywhere now, but it works fine for me. If I can disentangle my patch from some other stuff that somehow crept in (I've no idea how; I'm using a virgin tree for this), I'll commit it under those names for now.