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Do we need this crap on LWN?

Posted Feb 22, 2007 9:53 UTC (Thu) by tyhik (guest, #14747)
In reply to: Do we need this crap on LWN? by mokki
Parent article: ESR's goodbye note

"As far as I know it is not possible to create a static binary that does not somehow depend on the glibc (or some other critical library)."

It is. Static binary is indeed self-contained and to run it just the ABI-compatibility with the underlying kernel is needed.

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Posted Feb 22, 2007 13:13 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

... unless it does name (service, network...) resolution, in which case you need the nss libraries from the version of glibc the program was built with.