Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.2.5-11.5 Severity: normal This makes impossible to statically link a program using gethostname/byname etc. since it uses dlopen and need .so files, ld-so and libc.so. This bug was reported as #76451 on libc6 2.1.96-1 and it's not resolved since woody version and 2.3.1-17 on sid. The old bug report was also talking about a way to make this "transparent" to the linker:
-- quote -- For now I fixed it with mv /usr/lib/libc.a /usr/lib/libc_ns.a cat > /usr/lib/libc.a <<EOF /* GNU ld script Use the static library, but some functions are in other strange libraries :-( So try them secondarily. */ GROUP ( /usr/lib/libc_ns.a /usr/lib/libnss_files.a /usr/lib/libnss_dns.a /usr/lib/libresolv.a ) EOF -- quote -- I dunno if this stuff works, but at least I need .a files to use gethostname/byname in a statically linked application. -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux flender 2.4.21 #2 Sat Jul 19 11:52:56 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages libc6-dev depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
