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Re: Dealing with broken ELF libraries

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com> writes:

> I don't know if HP tried anything similar.

Probably not.  It's only MIPS where the difference between static and
dynamic binaries is so huge due to the mis-design of the lazy
relocation.  Beside, HP has acquired from Sun the NSS technology which
on traditional dynamic loading systems prohibits static linking.
(Only exception: glibc).

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