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Re: Problem with static linking

From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams at gnu dot org>
To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
Cc: divisortheory at gmail dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:54:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Problem with static linking
References: <478231340907151937x4f1059f8l4545bb071441c9f9@mail.gmail.com> <4A5ED994.2010301@redhat.com>
Reply-to: ams at gnu dot org

   However, I really implore you: by all means link statically to
   everything else, but leave libc dynamically linked.  I'm not aware
   of any reason not to link libc dynamically, and not doing so leads
   to a ton of problems.

Problems also arise if one uses functions that use NSS (eg. getXbyY
functions like gethostbyname).  In which case, the GNU C library will
try to do a dlopen on several libraries to find the right one.

References:
- Problem with static linking
  - From: Zachary Turner
- Re: Problem with static linking
  - From: Andrew Haley

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