On 18 Aug 2015 13:34, Linda Walsh wrote: > Then can you give any technical reason why a static > lib that uses no network services (i.e. running > on a mini-root ) couldn't be made available for > the various calls that currently claim "dynamic library > support" is necessary.
(1) http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html (2) it's using the nss system which lets people drop modules into the system at anytime and change the overall lookups to use that. statically linking a specific subset would block that ability. which means people using providers like ldap would be stuck with static binaries that don't work. https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Name-Service-Switch.html i'm not going to debate the relevance of such a system nowadays as i don't care. purely pointing out that it's not a "political" issue (nor have you provided any references to back up your specious claim). > Seems simple enough to provide such a widely asked for > feature -- even if it has to be less functional/flexible > than the dynamic version (i.e. Gnu would have done the best > they could under the circumstances). it's already been provided. build glibc w/--enable-static-nss. -mike
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