so if i'm on musl and tell gcc to link statically it should just work? in that case i'll try and report.
On 7/3/17, sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com <sylvain.bertr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 01:45:39PM +0200, hiro wrote: >> I have a related question. how can i statically link X11 programs >> nowadays? Without dlopen obviously... > > AFAIK, you can statically link all of them... but it was a long time ago. > > The real culprit for static linking is in the gnu glibc: pthread_cancel > _does_ > dlopen libgcc_s for "stack unwinding code" (just kill the stack, why unwind > it??). This is how you can bootstrap a system build with a glibc which does > not > require an existing libgcc_s which depends itself on the libc (it breaks > the > circular dep). But gcc is doomed anyway as it goes c++. > > To summerize, you have any program which uses pthread_cancel, you MUST use > libgcc_s, here dies the static libgcc distros. > > It seems musl lib has a pthread_cancel which does work with "libgcc_s > dlopen > free" static linking... > > -- > Sylvain > >
