Statically linking against a shared library

Thorsten Glaser tg@66h.42h.de
Sun Mar 13 09:35:00 GMT 2005


Alan Modra dixit:

>At least not without emulating ld.so's behaviour in ld, which isn't
>a sane idea.

Uh, why? After all, I think, it's just some relocation work and
setting up a bunch of tables.

>Sounds counter to the aims of free software.

If the source code of both is readily available, I don't think I
should be hindered to do it. Unix gives you the rope to shoot
yourself into the foot ;)

Besides, "free software" as in GPL interpreted by the FSF, does
not make a distinction between dynamic and static linkage for
the "gimme all your source" requirement.

bye,
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