elink(5)                       DG/UX R4.11MU05                      elink(5)


NAME
       elink - environment variable-sensitive symbolic link

DESCRIPTION
       The elink mechanism is a method used by some software development
       tools to resolve pathnames in a non-standard way that is determined
       by environment variables.  See dg_sde_pathname(3) for a precise
       definition of the resolution rules. The elink-path(1) command
       resolves pathnames using this function.

       The most common elinks are located in the /usr/lib directory to
       denote library files that exist in multiple software development
       environments (see sde(5)).

NOTES
       The elink mechanism is incorporated into the following set of tools.

               ar           cc           gcc          nm
               att_dump     dis          ld           sde-chooser

       Other tools that attempt to use a pathname that contains an elink
       will act as if the environment variables are not defined.

SEE ALSO
       dgsdepathname(3), elink-path(1), sde(5), sde-target(1).


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