Bug#203014: libc6-dev: Missing libnss_{db,dns,files,compat}.a files in libc6-dev, just add --enable-static-nss to configure params

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 02:41, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> This makes impossible to statically link a program using
> gethostname/byname etc. since it uses dlopen and
> need .so files, ld-so and libc.so.

Doesn't --enable-static-nss actually disable the normal NSS mechanism? 
This switch is really just a hack to allow you to complete a libc build
before you have dynamic linking operational.  I would be reluctant to
turn it on in production.

p.