static binaries and NSS

[Thorsten Kukuk]

Hi,

I get more and more complains from ISVs, who linked their binaries
static against glibc, that the binaries stop working with a glibc
update. The reason for linking the binaries static is always, that
they think in this way they are independend of the installed glibc.


I think it is time that we add a linker warning to getpwnam and
friends, that static linking and using this functions, which calls
NSS, is a bad idea. Or should we go one step further and remove
this functions from the static libc like Solaris did?

Comments?

  Thorsten
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