Static linking considered harmful

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Thu Nov 23 14:39:53 UTC 2006


On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 03:31:37PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Does the fact that an application is linked with libdl means that it 
> is useless if linked statically, or is it possible that some features
> only are unavailable?

It is useless if you want to move it between distros, as it will often
just crash.

	Jakub




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