> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I have applied the following patch for OpenBSD and FreeBSD. They have
> > the same -Bsymbolic handling and same use of LD for linking. I made the
> > duplicate changes Peter made for BSDI.
>
> Hmm, at least on OpenBSD the recommended way to build shared libraries is
> using 'ld' directly. But using gcc should work as well.
> > Can anyone commend on the use of 'ld -x' to delete all local symbols?
> > FreeBSD and OpenBSD have it, while BSD/OS does not. I added it to BSDi,
> > and it seems to work fine.
>
> I don't think it should be used.
Can someone comment on why people would have added that?
>
> > Actually, it seems NetBSD already had all these fixes.
>
> On NetBSD, there are about 4 different ways of build shared libraries,
> depending on version and platform. Nothing I wanna mess with.
Yes, BSDI has even more, but I think we are now doing the same thing on
all the bsd's. Interesting that NetBSD was the only "right" one.
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