[PATCH] link parted against glibc dynamically, everything else static

[Matt Wilson]

The attached patch adds a configure flag that results in a parted
binary that is dynamically linked against libc and statically against
everything else.  parted currently uses NSS functionality
(getlogin()), which uses dlopen.  When you dlopen a library that
dlopens another in a totally static program it's a bit tricky (insert
muck about the symbol tables and such).  nss_ldap does this, so if
you're running nss_ldap you'll segfault.

Also, the locale data formats change every once and a while, so to
prevent app breakage it's besst to link dynamically to libc, to make
you immune to this.

Cheers,

Matt

parted-1.4.16-partstatic.patch
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