Re: ...but now

[Cristian Gafton <gafton at redhat dot com>]

On 6 Jan 2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> You mean nss_ldap?  This might work.  The only reason we have some

Yes... damn typo.

> support for dlopen in static apps is because of NSS.  But there is no
> guarantee.  There are simply too many things which can go wrong.  And
> this cannot be changed.

Atually, it doesn't because what is happening is you have  a static binary
that will dlopen nss_ldap which in turn is dynamically linked against the
LDAP libs which will cause a segfault.

So
    static -> dlopen(foo) -> works
but
    static -> dlopen(foo) -> dlopen(bar) -> SEGV

Which means that the NSS modules can not be linked against additional
shared libs.

Cristian
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