The N option is used to statically link a program. What manpage were you looking at?
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: dwarf>On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, llucius wrote: dwarf> dwarf>> I'm sorry it was the "-N" link option that causes "ae" to be linked dwarf>> statically. Is it really necessary to use the option? dwarf>> dwarf>Well, my man page says: dwarf> dwarf> dwarf> -N specifies readable and writable text and data sec- dwarf> tions. If the output format supports Unix style dwarf> magic numbers, the output is marked as OMAGIC. dwarf> dwarf> When you use the `-N' option, the linker does not dwarf> page-align the data segment. dwarf> dwarf>none of which seems to have anything to do with static vs shared dwarf>libraries. dwarf> dwarf>Do you have libc5-dev and ncurses3.0-dev installed? I believe that the dwarf>linker decides whether or not to link static or shared by which kind of dwarf>library it finds in it's search path. The dev packages provide the shared dwarf>libraries in the proper place to satisfy the linker. The linker has to be instructed to link static otherwise it will do dynamic linking. {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} {} Snail Mail: FTS Box 466, 135 N.Oakland Ave, Pasadena, CA 91182 {} {} FISH Internet System Administrator at Fuller Theological Seminary {} {}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{}{} PGP Public Key = FB 9B 31 21 04 1E 3A 33 C7 62 2F C0 CD 81 CA B5