Static vs Dynamic Linking

["brian (b.c.) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca>]

>Sorry folks, the man-2.3.10-7 I released yesterday was statically
>linked against libc. (my latest upgrade went wrong). :(
>This version is dynamically linked:

What is the procedure for checking if a binary is statically linked?
I was under the impression that gcc used shared libraries unless
it was given the "-static" flag.  Is this correct?

                                        Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@bnr.ca )

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