---Steve Lamont <spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> You can compile it and use the `ar' command to add it to the library.
> I think I may have asked TC why it wasn't in the library but I
> honestly don't recall his answer.
The answser is simpler than you might've suspected. On some (most)
platforms, I can't figure out how to make a shared library
that is not self-contained, i.e., with unresolved symbols
in it, and at the same time somehow fool the linker not to resolve them.
If I were to put gl.o into the shared library,
all users of xforms will have to have Mesa to make an application,
an un-necessary burden, IMO. The static library, however,
does have gl.o in it.
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