Monday Oct 23 23:20:45 -0400 2000 Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi -Tom,
> > I don't think it's a good idea to link -static with libc6. That will blow it
> > up ^
>
> Nope. I tested it, it works fine.
>
> In general, linking with -static with your libc6 is an easy quick way to
> make an executable that will run on tomsrtbt if you don't want to take the
> trouble to build a libc5 executable. It should always work unless there
> is an interdependency on some system configuration file such as the utmp.
In general this is true, but in some cases it fails -- in thses cases, when
c-library itself opens some dynamic library to do work... even static
C-library does this. In one project I needed to have all binaries
statically linked, and had to go making my libc5 environment, since `login'
with static libc6 wouldn't work...
Btw, How is your `foolproof libc5 compilation environment' coming up, Tom?
>
> -Tom
>
Tomi
