[ILUG] Linking question

[hmoreau at digiserve.ie]

On  6 Nov, Mel wrote:
> 
> here is one for the gcc/g++ kings.
> 
> I have two libs that I want pieces out of either of them. Now, they
> decided having the same named functions doing the same thing in two binary
> libs would be funny - aren't they smart!
> 

Need to know a little more here.  Are the libs shared libs (.so's) or
static (.a)?  What are the actual libs?  What functions or symbols
overlap?

-- 
--harry