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Re: ...but now

To: Cristian Gafton <gafton at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: ...but now
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 06 Jan 2001 18:20:53 -0800
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101062102460.14215-100000@alien.devel.redhat.com>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> writes:

> 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

This will never work.  It's simply impossible.  You have two ld.sos
which stomp on each others foots.  People simply have to realized that
static binaries can only be used in very special environments.  Create
a rpm which is linked dynamically and use it whenever possible.

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