Re: remaking bash, trying static, glibc refuses static...?

[Mike Frysinger]

On 18 Aug 2015 13:34, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Then can you give any technical reason why a static
> lib that uses no network services (i.e. running
> on a mini-root ) couldn't be made available for
> the various calls that currently claim "dynamic library
> support" is necessary.

(1) http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html
(2) it's using the nss system which lets people drop modules into the system
at anytime and change the overall lookups to use that.  statically linking a
specific subset would block that ability.  which means people using providers
like ldap would be stuck with static binaries that don't work.
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Name-Service-Switch.html

i'm not going to debate the relevance of such a system nowadays as i don't
care.  purely pointing out that it's not a "political" issue (nor have you
provided any references to back up your specious claim).

> Seems simple enough to provide such a widely asked for 
> feature -- even if it has to be less functional/flexible
> than the dynamic version (i.e. Gnu would have done the best
> they could under the circumstances). 

it's already been provided.  build glibc w/--enable-static-nss.
-mike

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