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

[Gianluigi Tiesi <sherpya@netfarm.it>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:14:33AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
>  
>
> > 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.
> >    
>
> The static nss libraries are also documented not to work in a number of
> cases, if I remember right.  The glibc maintainers just really, really
> want you to link dynamically.
>
>  
Compiling glibc without --enable-static-nss produces these .a files:
flender:/usr/src/work/glibc/2/glibc-2.2.5# find . -name libnss\*.a
./i386-linux/obj/resolv/libnss_dns_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/nss/libnss_files_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/hesiod/libnss_hesiod_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/nis/libnss_nis_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/nis/libnss_nisplus_pic.a
./i386-linux/obj/nis/libnss_compat_pic.a

but they are collected by no one of glibc packages, I think here it's 
enough to include all of these .a files lib libc6-dev without
modifing compile-time options....