Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2002 14:04:13 +0100 (CET) | From | Roman Zippel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [kbuild] Possibility to sanely link against off-directory .so |
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Hi,
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > Shared libraries can be loaded dynamically, this means distribution can > > package the graphical front ends and the user doesn't need to install > > huge development packages. > > I still don't get it. Why can't the distribution vendor just link > /usr/bin/qconf against $(LINUX)/scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.a?
New features will be added and only the parser that comes with the kernel will understand them. It's less likley that the library API will change.
bye, Roman
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