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Re: Static Linking
- From: "Laros, James" <jhlaros at sandia dot gov>
- To: "Julius Schmidt" <aiju at phicode dot de>,"libc-help at sourceware dot org" <libc-help at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:25:26 -0700
- Subject: Re: Static Linking
I would be very interested in this answer also, less the holy war
perspective. Dynamic libraries are difficult to deal with at very large
scale (50-100k nodes). I have nothing against dynamic libs but allowing
fully static builds is important for some niche areas.
--
James H. Laros III
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Scalable Computer Architectures
Sandia National Laboratories
(505) 845-8532
On 2/22/11 11:16 AM, "Julius Schmidt" <aiju@phicode.de> wrote:
>Some functions in glibc like gethostbyaddr don't like to be statically
>linked
>(well, you can, but they require the dynamic libraries, defeating the
>purpose
>of static linking). Is there some rationale behind this? (beyond hurr
>durr
>static linking sucks why do you use it; i know, Ulrich)
>I don't mean to start a religious flamewar about static vs dynamic
>linking; I'd just like to hear why this decision was made.
>
>aiju
>