Static linking considered harmful
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Sat Nov 25 10:16:37 UTC 2006
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.
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