Re: Static vs Dynamic Linking
>>>>> "brian" == "brian (b c ) white" <bcwhite@bnr.ca> writes:
>> 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:
brian> What is the procedure for checking if a binary is statically linked?
brian> I was under the impression that gcc used shared libraries unless
brian> it was given the "-static" flag. Is this correct?
ldd will show what dynamic libraries are required by an executable.
The problem was (AFAIK) that ldconfig did not get run correctly after
a rather chaotic upgrade. gcc/ld found no dynamic lib c so it used the
fallback static one instead.
Reinstalling both lib5c packages fixed the problem.
alvar
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