Re: Compiling CERN httpd with static libs on Sol 2.4

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• Subject: Re: Compiling CERN httpd with static libs on Sol 2.4
• From: John DiMarco <jdd@cdf.toronto.edu>
• Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:05:05 -0400
• In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:06:40 EDT." <9507261406.AA14304@oxygen.house.gov>

In message <9507261406.AA14304@oxygen.house.gov>you write:
>Has anyone successfully compiled the CERN httpd release to use
>static libs?  I'm using gcc on Solaris 2.4.  The -Bstatic isn't
>understood by gcc, but -static should be, if the man pages are
>right.  But it doesn't seem to work.

Don't link statically on Solaris 2.x; the name services switch stuff
in libc dynamically loads the appropriate library according to the contents
of /etc/nsswitch.conf, and if you try to statically link, the dynamic loading
routines (dlopen etc.) will be missing.  You can stub them out, but then
you lose all name resolution capability (gethostbyname etc.), which isn't
ideal for something like httpd.

Regards,

John
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