Re: NPTL and static linking
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:57:00 +0000 (UTC), Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org> wrote:
> bluujack@gmail.com said:
>
> I just figured out a way to do this for the ssh binary. Maybe this would
> work for you?
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> $ apt-get source ssh
> $ cd openssh-3.8.1p1
> $ debian/rules build
I appreciate the thought, but actually building glibc (and the nptl
add-on) is a dangerous
and daunting task. I looked into it for about half an hour, but glibc
is a different order of beast from ssh entirely: it requires
considerable configuration which is not for the casual developer, and
installing it is a *very* touchy business. Of course, I would really
only need to install the libpthread.a archive, but even so, building
the whole glibc package is an involved and intensive undertaking and
moreover...
> Is there anything wrong with doing this? I have by doubts that this is
> completely foolproof. Any libc macros or inlines will come from the
> build system's libc, for example. I don't know if that can cause
> problems when a different glibc version is dynamically linked at
> runtime.
Exactly. So I decided against this course of action entirely. For just
about any application
or library *other* than glibc, this would be the right approach for my needs.
-Blunt
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