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Re: Statically linked binary & NSS
- To: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
- Subject: Re: Statically linked binary & NSS
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 02 Dec 1998 09:55:59 -0800
- Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>, GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker@gnu.org>
- References: <199812021711.MAA05092@baalperazim.frob.com>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:
> Can we improve this situation?
Why? Static binaries are evil, nobody should ever use any. This is
common practice on Solaris, HPUX and probably more in future as Sun
seems to license NSS to others.
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