Static linking considered harmful

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Nov 22 19:21:41 UTC 2006


On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 06:38:13PM +0100, Leszek Matok wrote:
> Dnia 22-11-2006, ??ro o godzinie 12:10 -0500, Jakub Jelinek napisa??(a):
> > If you want bit-reproduceable results, you can equally well
> > just stick the shared libraries you need into the same directory as the
> > program
> This way you still don't upgrade a library to the bug-free version if
> you don't remember about that. You save compiling time, true. But you
> still have to remember, which library has to be copied (instead of
> linked in). I thought the main point of the discussion was the security
> issues raising when someone forgets to relink some program.

Here we were talking about extremely specialized needs of very rare apps,
nothing that should be massively used, and only for that purpose when you
rely on bit-reproduceable results.

	Jakub




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