Hi, Florian Pelgrim writes: > I would also be interested what this message means and if it can be > ignored or anything should be done: >> /home/vagrant/coreutils-8.23/src/whoami.c:85: warning: Using >> 'getpwuid' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the >> shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking
`getpwuid' uses shared objects to implement modules for user information lookup (/etc/passwd) and the like; this is configured in /etc/nsswitch.conf. As far as I know, the interface between glibc and these modules is not stable. I don't know how often it changes though. If you link statically, you have to have the correct versions of these shared objects around: they cannot be linked in as it is only decided at runtime which ones to load. If they aren't available, I would expect failures in programs relying on name lookup: for example whoami cannot get the username associated with the uid if `getpwuid' fails. Ansgar
