Bug#203014: libc6-dev: Missing libnss_{db,dns,files,compat}.a files in libc6-dev, just add --enable-static-nss to configure params

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:14:33AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
 

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 02:41, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
   

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.
     

Doesn't --enable-static-nss actually disable the normal NSS mechanism? 
This switch is really just a hack to allow you to complete a libc build
before you have dynamic linking operational.  I would be reluctant to
turn it on in production.
   

The static nss libraries are also documented not to work in a number of
cases, if I remember right.  The glibc maintainers just really, really
want you to link dynamically.
 

Compiling glibc without --enable-static-nss produces these .a files:
flender:/usr/src/work/glibc/2/glibc-2.2.5# find . -name libnss\*.a
./i386-linux/obj/resolv/libnss_dns_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/nss/libnss_files_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/hesiod/libnss_hesiod_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/nis/libnss_nis_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/nis/libnss_nisplus_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/nis/libnss_compat_pic.a
but they are collected by no one of glibc packages, I think here it's 
enough to include all of these .a files lib libc6-dev without
modifing compile-time options....