>If you have GNU ld, even though not ELF, you can make a linker script >listing all the libnss_*.a libraries. That script could be installed as >libc.a with the actual libc.a living elsewhere (e.g. libcrt.a) as the Hurd >does it. That's a good plan. Yes, we can assume Linux (the only system I'm currently worried about) always has GNU ld. p.