Hello All , What change in Glibc mekes this necessary ? Is there a method available to include the getpwnam & getgrnam structures so that full static build will work . Tia , JimL gcc -Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -ggdb -DSendmail=\""/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"\" -DCONFFILE=\"/etc/mdadm.conf\" -DCONFFILE2=\"/etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf\" -DHAVE_STDINT_H -o sha1.o -c sha1.c gcc -static -o mdadm mdadm.o config.o mdstat.o ReadMe.o util.o Manage.o Assemble.o Build.o Create.o Detail.o Examine.o Grow.o Monitor.o dlink.o Kill.o Query.o mdopen.o super0.o super1.o bitmap.o restripe.o sysfs.o sha1.o config.o(.text+0x8c4): In function `createline': /home/archive/mdadm-2.5.2/config.c:341: warning: Using 'getgrnam' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking config.o(.text+0x80b):/home/archive/mdadm-2.5.2/config.c:326: warning: Using 'getpwnam' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking nroff -man mdadm.8 > mdadm.man -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 3600 14th Ave SE #20-103 | Give me Linux | | babydr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Olympia , WA. 98501 | only on AXP | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html