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Re: Not everyone is linking shared libraries to libc



>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu> writes:

    Sam> I certainly don't see how the text of policy section 9.2.2
    Sam> mandates linking against libc.  The footnote comes closer,
    Sam> but even that seems to imply that all I need to do is make
    Sam> sure that some library in my package links against libc so
    Sam> that the dependencies come out right.  Note that the footnote
    Sam> does not have the force of policy.

If I have a shared library with one function, for instance:

int return_answer() {
  return(42);
}

which doesn't use any libc functions, does it still have to link
against libc?
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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