Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:
>   How would people feel about providing a stock 
> 	"librsa.so.0.0" 
> 
>   that provides linkages but no actual code. Any routine that is called would
> either abort(), or possibly something else. That way code can be linked
> against it without worrying about whether or not the code really existss.

I'm not sure this is such a good idea.

a common reason why things "link against' other things is for
autoconfiguration a la 'configure'... and if the resulting functions
don't work you'll get programs that are configured for features which
don't exist.

What actual problem is it meant to solve?


cgd
-- 
Chris Demetriou - cgd@netbsd.org - http://www.netbsd.org/People/Pages/cgd.html
Disclaimer: Not speaking for NetBSD, just expressing my own opinion.