From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (970903.SGI.8.8.7/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id QAA09090 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA14822 for linux-list; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:58:34 -0700 Received: from sgi.sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA14810 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:58:31 -0700 Received: from informatik.uni-koblenz.de (mailhost.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.4.1]) by sgi.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/970507) via ESMTP id QAA03601 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 16:58:29 -0700 env-from (ralf@informatik.uni-koblenz.de) Received: from erbse (ralf@erbse.uni-koblenz.de [141.26.5.44]) by informatik.uni-koblenz.de (8.8.7/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA08226; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 01:58:21 +0200 (MEST) From: Ralf Baechle Message-Id: <199710142358.BAA08226@informatik.uni-koblenz.de> Received: by erbse (SMI-8.6/KO-2.0) id BAA25872; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 01:58:19 +0200 Subject: static rpm bug, dynamic linker To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 01:58:18 +0200 (MET DST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hi all, I spent a lot of time on fixing the dynamic linker. The bugs Miguel found by building native X libraries are fixed by now. The only one that still is still giving me a miracle to solve is the fact that certain statically linked executables, most prominently rpm, are failing. I'm about to fix that one also and that long want to remind people that static linking is a dead concept anyway. rpm for example will load a dynamic libc when using the nss services, so all you get is bloat while the knowledge about the kernel interfaces embedded into the statically linked libc makes it very difficult to improve system interfaces. Ralf