Apparently, glibc's static linking support is deprecated?

Carmelo AMOROSO carmelo.amoroso at st.com
Wed May 12 19:23:54 UTC 2010


On 5/12/2010 8:36 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper, the glibc maintainer, has gone crazy and believes that static 
> linking should never be used for anything:
> 
>   http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html
> 
> (Somebody should tell him about execute in place support, about dynamic 
> linking dirtying per-process physical pages, about portability between 
> systems...  He doesn't seem to understand any of it, according to that 
> rant...)
> 
> According to archive.org that page has been up since 2004...
> 
> Rob

this is reason for working with uClibc instead ;-)


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