pgman@candle.pha.pa.us wrote:

> I have applied the following patch to properly exit ODBC.  I also
> patched the ODBC makefile so it links under BSD/OS.  The -Bsymbolic
> under BSD/OS is very harsh under BSD/OS, requiring all symbols even in
> libc and crt1.o to be resolved before creating the shared library.
>
> My 'ld' manual says:
>
>        -Bsymbolic
>               When  creating a shared library, bind references to
>               global symbols to the definition within the  shared
>               library,  if  any.   Normally, it is possible for a
>               program linked against a shared library to override
>               the definition within the shared library.  This op-
>               tion is only meaningful on ELF platforms which sup-
>               port shared libraries.

Hmm,

removing that may break it when running under a driver manager though...

I will check of FreeBSD, it certainly will on Linux ELF.

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Nick Gorham
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