> > One of the release goals for Debian 2.0 has been to link all shared
> > libraries dynamically against each other. This can be done by using the
> > `-lc' option when linking the library. With that, the library will contain
> > valuable dependency information about which other libraries the library is
> > linked against.
>
> The intention is right, but the technical details are wrong. Shared
> libs linked without -lc are still dynamically linked against libc
> (despite what ldd reports.) They just don't have an explicit
> dependency. I suggest the following:
I thought they would only be dynamically linked with libc if the linking
program or another library had linked against libc. Granted, this should
be true in almost all cases, but I just wanted to get clarification.
Brian
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