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Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 09:32:18 +0200
From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@engelschall.com>
To: new-httpd@apache.org
Subject: Re: DSO issue
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In article <19980907022222.A5801@mindcryme.com> you wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 1998 at 08:10:47AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>> You cannot link just one DSO against a library. You have to link all, but
>> usually that doesn't hurt. For this enable the SHARED_CHAIN rule and specifiy
>> your libs via LIBS. Then the libs which can be linked against DSOs are
>> automatically fetched out of LIBS.

> SHARED_CHAIN?

> I don't see anything resembling that anywhere in the source tree.  Also
> - how is it that this was never necessary before?  I know people have
> built mod_rewrite shared with dbm support enabled.  Ditto
> mod_auth_dbm.so

> And so how do I add LIBS to the building of shared modules?

Building mod_auth_dbm.so works on most platforms because there the DBM stuff
is in libc which is always available to DSOs ;-). The SHARED_CHAIN is on
1.3.2-dev. Sorry, it was added after 1.3.1. 

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com