Re: static binaries and NSS

[Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>]

On Tue, Jun 10, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

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> Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
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> > I think it is time that we add a linker warning to getpwnam and
> > friends, that static linking and using this functions, which calls
> > NSS, is a bad idea.
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> That's certainly a good thing to do regardless of any further action.

Ok, I append a patch which adds a linker warning to the nss/getXX*.c
files. With this, every function compiled from this files will 
contain this warning on static linking.

  Thorsten

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