Bug#555980: debian-policy: No policy on statically linked binaries
Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 04:43:18PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Unless I'm missing something, and I did a text search through Policy,
>> Policy is currently silent on the topic of statically linked binaries
>> other than a brief mention in a footnote on convenience copies of code.
> Please note that "statically linked binaries" can cover:
> 1) static executable statically linked with the glibc (they do not work well
> due to glibc plugins)
This is the case that we're talking about here. In other words,
*entirely* static binaries. What you get with gcc -static.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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