* Damien Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010319 20:16]:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
> > As a general rule, it's a Bad Idea(tm) to compile security-related programs
> > like this using shared libraries because there's always the possibility
> > that somebody's going to switch libraries on you.
>
> That is just silly - if someone is in a position to play games with you
> system libraries then they can do a lot more damage than that.
>
> Since libc is almost always a dynamic lib, then it makes little sense
> to statically link against other things.
>
> You may want to statically link against OpenSSL if you plan on upgrading
> it. All OpenSSL releases to date have broken binary compatability.
and SOME OS's (SOLARIS) won't do Network with a static link.
LER
>
> -d
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