Static linking considered harmful

[Andrew Haley]

n0dalus writes:
 > On 11/24/06, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
 > > Erik van Pienbroek writes:
 > >  >
 > >  > The first thing that comes in my mind is bundling your
 > >  > own shared libraries with the application, but for that to
 > >  > work the LD_LIBRARY_PATH= hack is needed, which is also evil.
 > >
 > > I read this a couple of times, and I still don't know what problem
 > > you're referring to.  The usual technique is simply to provide a
 > > wrapper script that sets up whatever environment is required and
 > > exec's the application.
 > >
 > 
 > Doesn't using LD_LIBRARY_PATH have the same effect as using static
 > linking? 

Not quite.  If you look at Uli's page
(http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html) you'll see
that this applies to some of the arguments but not all of them.

Andrew.