Re: Has anyone compared ncurses against the two Solaris 8 curses libraries?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:06:20PM -0600, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:34:58PM -0400, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> % 
> [snippage]
> % 
> % -rw-r--r--   3 root     bin       765864 Jan  5  2000 /usr/lib/libcurses.a
> % lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         16 Jun 22 12:40 /usr/lib/libcurses.so 
> -> 
> % ./libcurses.so.1
> % -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       463544 Jan  5  2000 
> /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1
> % -rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        91832 Jan  5  2000 
> /usr/ucblib/libcurses.a
> % lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         16 Jun 22 12:35 
> /usr/ucblib/libcurses.so 
> % -> ./libcurses.so.1
> % -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin        66312 Jan  5  2000 
> /usr/ucblib/libcurses.so.1
> % 
> % The /usr/lib version is more than 8 times the size of the /usr/ucblib 
> version.
> % Does it do something new and miraculous?
> 
> Perhaps the larger library is statically linked?

I think the first .a and the .so differ mainly wrt file formats - .so's
don't have to have as much symbol-table space, and don't need sections
for linker fixups.

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