Subj : NPTL and Static Linking
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Bluejack
Date : Tue Mar 08 2005 12:54 pm


I discovered with some surprise that on my distribution (Debian, Sarge,  
kernel 2.6.8),
not only is the default pthread library for *static* linking the  
LinuxThreads library,
but no archive version of the NPTL library is present on the box -- only  
an .so!

Does anyone know if there is some reason that it is not possible to build  
a statically
linked NPTL-using application? I did some research and discovered that it  
is not
just my distribution (or I would take the question to those lists),  
apparently
all distributions except for Gentoo come this way.

Insight?

-bluejack

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