Re: Potential breakage of static build.

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:47:24PM -0800, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On 24 Jan 2000, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> > Date: 24 Jan 2000 17:10:52 -0800
> > From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
> > To: Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net>
> > Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com
> > Subject: Re: Potential breakage of static build.
> > 
> > Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net> writes:
> > 
> > > I discovered this while doing the LinuxThreads work, but I forgot to report it.
> > > 
> > > I built a static libc.a and it failed to link with my test program
> > > due to the symbol
> > 
> > Static linking works.  Where do you have the .o files from?
> 
> It was a complete, self-contained rebuild from the glibc-2-1-branch sources
> that I checked out some time ago. I must have done something wrong.
> 
> I configured with the option to disable shared libs and to disable profiling;
> that might have done it. I did this to save time rebuilding everything.
> 
> I'll try to reproduce the problem over the next while, starting from scratch,
> and get back to you so don't waste your time.

I remembered I had to fix some problems on the 2.1 branch with static
build when I was working on ia64.


H.J.