Re: IMPORTANT - Is your libc6 library broken?

[Yann Dirson <dwitch@monge.univ-mlv.fr>]

Guy Maor writes:
 > This paragraph, from libc6-migration.text.gz is VERY IMPORTANT!
 > 
 >    Libraries (regardless of which library they're compiled against) need
 >    to have runtime dependencies on one of libc, libdl or libm to enable
 >    the shared linker to determine which library to use for a binary.
 >    These runtime dependencies are _NOT_ dependencies in the Debian
 >    way, but dependencies generated by the linker when generating the
 >    shared library. See the binutils manual for more information.
 > 
 > Any library which does not have a runtime dependency and uses the same
 > soname for libc5 and libc6 versions will make ld.so do the wrong
 > thing.

If I infer well from another mail of yours, these broken shared libs
are those reported as "statically linked" by "ldd" ?

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