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Re: How to deal with SONAME which changes very often



Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo <fenio@o2.pl> writes:

> On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 11:18:11PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> > Please give me some hints/suggestions what should be done in such
>> > situation? Are there any packages with that situation in our archive?
>> Since you are the only one using I would say link it in
>> static. Problem solved.
> I made it this way. Seems to work fine. 
>  
>> But on second thought, seeing that its utilitie_s_, static linking
>> would waste ram.
> I was wrong. I thought it will provide many small binaries, but seems
> that it is linked in one binary with many features.
> So there won't be wasting ram.

The number of binaries won't matter.  Running two or more copies of one
binary would still use more memory, since the library code isn't being
shared.

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