Static linking considered harmful

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:51:00PM +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> their work done and shared either locally or globally. If you have met
> this community you will know that they will go Ubuntu the next moment
> their static linking is not working on Fedora. That's already
> happening BTW, so you'll just be giving more arguments to get the last
> scientist off Fedora.

Since when does Ubuntu use a different C library from Fedora?  The problems
with static linking pointed out here are in no way specific to Fedora,
some of the problems are completely generic things, some are related
to LGPL, some to ELF, some to the GNU C Library.

	Jakub