Subj : Re: NPTL and Static Linking
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Tue Mar 08 2005 01:08 pm


"Bluejack" <bluejack@bluejack.nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:opsnb60tzgd5j5pn@ox.domain.actdsltmp...

> 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!

    This is not unusual.

>  Does anyone know if there is some reason that it is not possible to build 
> a statically
> linked NPTL-using application?

    Such an application wouldn't run on machines that couldn't support NPTL 
(due to processor type or kernel version).

> 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?

    Compatability.

    DS

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