On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 12:04:53PM +0100, Andrew Collier wrote: > But a lot of people do that sort of thing, eg statically link your binary > to glibc. I mean, there's enough flux in libc (especially on Linux) that > statically linking makes the binary far more portable.
What are you talking about? The only program I know on Linux which is statically linked to libc is rpm, and there is a specific reason for that. Now admittedly most of the programs were supplied with the OS, but a notable exception is Netscape and that is dynamically linked. Also if you go to contrib.redhat you will most likely find that without exception all the contributed programs are dynamically linked. imc
