Statically linked binary & NSS

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Thu Dec 3 12:29:00 GMT 1998


Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> writes:

> IMHO having the nss ststic modules build is very important. Saying that I
> ask: when you say taht you don't want to generate static nss modules you
> mean that you don't want to do it yourself or that you wouldn't even take
> patches for that ?

Think about this: NSS cannot be static.  It simply does not work.
Never will.  So statically linked programs will behave differently
than dynamically linked programs.  This is absolutely unacceptable.

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