Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Jaromir Dolecek wrote:
> 
> : Is this true for all NetBSD archs -- i.e. for ELF and something
> : other than i386 ?
> 
> Only on ELF.  This is *not* true for any a.out platform, including i386.
> 
> : If yes, why pkglibtools strips -l,-L parameters while linking shared library ?
> 
> Because this cannot be guaranteed to be uniform on all NetBSD platforms.

Then why not do it in the ELF case and don't do it in the a.out case?

  Guenther