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echo: locuser
to: Paul Edwards
from: david begley
date: 1996-09-07 20:05:32
subject: linux

On Aug 30, 1996 at 00:56, Paul Edwards of 3:711/934.9 wrote:

 db>> * You want to static link everything?  Go right ahead.  I just don't
 db>> like/agree with designs that *force* you to static link in order to get
 db>> it...
 PE> I didn't force anything.

Yes you did - it used to work, it doesn't now;  something was changed which
now forces a static link.  Okay, so you didn't do it on purpose - but it's
done all the same.

 db>> Link with the static library explicitly (ie., the ones ending
in ".a").
 PE> How am I supposed to know which static libraries?

Start with the standard C library and see if anything complains after that!

 PE> Isn't there an option I can pass to gcc?

Errm .. "-Bstatic" rings a bell.  Check the docs.

 PE> You'll have to remind me what I was after code for when you send it.
 PE> :-)

I will - when I finally remember to pull it off my Linux partition and send
it to you!  Things are just *too* hectic at present (to remember much).

Cheers..

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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