NPTL / libpthread.a

[Blunt Jackson <bluujack@gmail.com>]

Ahoy...

I have noticed that in the Sarge/Kernel 2.6 combo, glibc is not
providing an archive of the NPTL libpthread.a for purposes of static
linking, but it *does* provide a static LinuxThreads libpthread.a.

This leads to the puzzling scenario in which default dynamic linking
picks up NPTL, but *no* statically linked app can make use of NPTL.
(Aside, perhaps, from using dlopen!)

Is there a known workaround / separate package / etc. that would
provide this library?

I can understand the fear of letting users build statically linked
applications that will not be compatable with the majority of linux
distros out there, but to effectively forbid any developer from doing
so seems a tad heavy handed.

(Obtaining sources and building my own NPTL libpthread.a involves
building all of glibc as far as I can tell, and that's a daunting
proposition.)

Or... am I missing something incredibly obvious?

-blunt jackson

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