On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Aidan Gauland wrote: Last time I had a go at this I found that static is deprecated.... the libc folks like Uli Drepper seem to be pushing _hard_ on the idea that you should keep it dynamically linked. In fact, chunks of the glibc won't work properly if you don't.
Sigh! Personally I hate this, but I when I try fight it I seem to be pissing upwind in a Canterbury gale... Options for you.... 0) Trust the distro to have the right .so. This seems to be the preferred appoach. 1) Deliver the .so's with the application and use LD_LIBRARY_PATH or LD_PRELOAD environment variables in a wrapper script. (eg. Firefox isn't a binary, it's a script. firefox-bin is the binary.) 2) Create a libwhatever.a and explicitly link against -lwhatever.a 3) Bugger around with the -Wl, option to talk directly to ld instead of via the gcc wrapper. (Hint the program gcc is just a wrapper that parses options, adds some more and invokes the real preprocessor / compiler / assembler / linker.) Let me know how you get on. Another handy resource for this class of question is the gcc-help mailing list. (Don't try the "gcc" mailing list, that's for development of gcc and your ears tend to get crisped if you ask there about using gcc rather than writing gcc.) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand
