On Aug 11, 2003, Claudio Bley <bley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Static linking is certainly a simple way to make sure the application > is runnable on the user's system. Except when it isn't. For example, glibc relies on dlopening nsl implementations, that are assumed to use data structures compatible to those you may have statically linked with. If they're not compatible, the program may crash unpredictably. So static linking is not the silver bullet it used to be a decade ago or so. As an additional non-GNU/Linux data point, more along the lines of the original question: I'm told Solaris won't even support static linking in the near future. -- Alexandre Oliva Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat GCC Developer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist Professional serial bug killer
