Re: [9fans] opera under linuxemu

["Lluís Batlle" <viriketo@gmail.com>]

I agree on this.

On the other hand, I seem to remember that any program using the
glibc's network name resolver can be totally statically linked in
Linux.

That has probably something to do with those dynamic /lib/libnss*
modules for name resolution, specified in /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Maybe a special compilation of glibc with those modules in static form
can produce static binaries, but I don't think any distribution comes
with a precompiled glibc like that.

2008/1/3, Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>:
> For one, I think opera-static doesn't mean it's a static binary but qt is
> linked in statically. On the other hand, until just a couple years ago
> static linking in linux was no problem at all. But around the time linux 2.6
> came out, the glibc guys apparently decided nobody used static linking
> anyway and merrily bollocksed it up. Great, now I'm depressed.
>
> * Federico G. Benavento (benavento@gmail.com) wrote:
> > hola,
> >
> > getting real static binaries in linux is a bit tricky and no one seems to
> > be doing so, they always need ld-linux.so, libnss and others.
> > cinap creates some kind of bundles that create a  fake ns in /tmp/$lbun
> > with this (http://9hal.ath.cx/usr/cinap_lenrek/lbun/mklbun) or something
> > like, but I know he got opera running in Plan 9.
> > http://9hal.ath.cx/usr/cinap_lenrek/plan9opera.png
>