On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Bill Campbell wrote:
> As a general rule, it's a Bad Idea(tm) to compile security-related programs
> like this using shared libraries because there's always the possibility
> that somebody's going to switch libraries on you.
That is just silly - if someone is in a position to play games with you
system libraries then they can do a lot more damage than that.
Since libc is almost always a dynamic lib, then it makes little sense
to statically link against other things.
You may want to statically link against OpenSSL if you plan on upgrading
it. All OpenSSL releases to date have broken binary compatability.
-d
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