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From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: -lgpp a default?
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 14:41:50 +0100
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Eric NICOLAS wrote:
> 
> In article <314E9414 DOT 167E AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>, Thomas Demmer
> 
> >You either forgot to link libgpp or put the link switch before the
> >object.
> >gcc test.cc -lgpp
> >
> >By the way: As so many people forget this @#$! ( <-- is this
> >CDA-compliant?) lib, shouldn't it be in the spec file by default?
> >
> >Ciao
> >Tom
> 
> Please, no, the C++ library -lgpp cannot be distributed without restrictions
> because it is copyright university of <i don't remeber>. I don't want to
> ship copyrighted things in my programs when I don't even use them !!!
> 
> --
> Eric Nicolas <nicolas AT dsys DOT ceng DOT cea DOT fr>

I always thought ld was smart enough not to add anything unneeded to
the executable, so if you don't reference anything from libgpp, adding 
-lgpp has no effect (except the time used for reading the lib and
finding out it's of no use).

But then again, I might be wrong.
 
-- 
Ciao
Tom



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