statically linked pam?

[Joe Lewis]

Justin F. wrote:
> I have been given the daunting task of putting a 3rd party pam module
> into rpm format, the catch is that it needs to be statically
> compiled, easy enough right? Well I looked around and the
> documentation on this is rather lacking- here's what I need to do as
> I understand it:

Call me crazy (I'm not the foremost expert on RPM packaging), but why 
not dynamic linking?  Can't you just do dependencies for the external 
libs you need, and drop the module in place?  Perhaps there is more to 
the packaging stuff than I realize, but I'd almost do the dynamic 
linking so that you aren't stuck with one specific version of a lib, 
right?  *note, my naivity is probably REALLY showing through right now.*

Joe