Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries

To: 100346-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#100346: PROPOSAL] Do not mandate existence of shared libraries
From: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 03:15:49 +0300
Message-id: <[🔎] 20010611031549.A1215@cs140102.pp.htv.fi>
Reply-to: Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>, 100346-maintonly@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] E159EVk-0006u2-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>
References: <[🔎] E159EVk-0006u2-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au>

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 09:20:48AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:
> > and neither is libc6 because some parts of it can only be linked
> > statically.
> 
> Which ones?

/usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a.  It contains atexit() and a lot of
stat() functions.  This has caused breakage in bash and libreadline
in the past; I can look up the bug number if you're interested.

-- 
Richard Braakman
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