Static linking considered harmful

[Ulrich Drepper]

Florian La Roche wrote:
> Then we should not remove too many static libs. Some are good candidates
> to only keep the real core (LSB?) libs dynamically loaded.

Why?  This makes no sense.  You have to provide arguments for each .a 
file.  As I said, you cannot even build a graphical application without 
libdl.  And all server apps are security relevant and should never use 
static linking for anything which doesn't come with the package.

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