On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 12:40:57PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > You can make the linker do most of the work for you. Glibc's linker > tries CPU-specific directory prefixes before looking straight in /lib > or /usr/lib. You could provide small sub-libraries in /usr/lib/sparcv8 > (I think that works.... someone should check; I know /lib/686 works on > i386) that contain the optimized code. Then a normal version in > /usr/lib and openssl's main shared library can link to the small > library, trusting the linker to find the right one. Except, IIRC, we stopped doing that for glibc since it caused all sorts of hell. (Don't remember the specific hellaciousness, but I don't recall it being good. :) If that method can be used sucessfully it would be nice for this case. -- Mike Stone
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