Re: Who could be able to help SW vendors to support Debian?
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:46:19PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> With the proviso that static linking against libc6 is more likely to
> introduce ABI problems via nss than just dynamically linking against an old
> libc6 ABI (i.e., GLIBC_2.0 or GLIBC_2.1).
Not to mention the LGPL too. Static linking against glibc is strongly
disrecommended by upstream.
For user space apps the dynamic interface to glibc is probably a better
target to aim for than the kernel - it's offering pretty much the same
level of ABI stability and is much less hassle.
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