#310445 please document that static linking is unsupported

Package:
libc6
Source:
glibc
Description:
GNU C Library: Shared libraries
Submitter:
Laurent Bonnaud
Date:
2014-08-04 12:33:09 UTC
Severity:
normal
#310445#5
Date:
2005-05-23 16:07:02 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I have a static binary that runs well on sarge and sid systems.  On this system
with libc6 from experimental, it fails:

$ ./multivideo.static

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
multivideo.static: dynamic-link.h:62: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! "bad dynamic tag"' failed.
Aborted


I will send the binary to the BTS as soon as I get the bug number.
#310445#10
Date:
2005-05-24 11:54:22 UTC
From:
To:
Hi again,

here is the binary.  I had to apply a rot13 transformation in order to
pass it through our e-mail filter.  Sorry for the inconvenience.
#310445#15
Date:
2005-08-05 22:26:40 UTC
From:
To:
At Mon, 23 May 2005 18:07:02 +0200,
Laurent Bonnaud wrote:

I got:

	> ./multivideo.static

	Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
	Segmentation fault

I don't know what the actual problem is, but it seems (1) locale
processing is changed from 2.3.2 to 2.3.5 (2) static binaries are
sometimes incompatible with old glibc.  Unfortunatelly we have no
source for multivideo - it's hard to track down the problem.  Do you
have any source to reappear?

Regards,
-- gotom
#310445#22
Date:
2007-03-06 12:32:14 UTC
From:
To:
tag 310445 moreinfo
severity 310445 normal
thanks

There are new versions of glibc available. Could you perhaps recheck
whether this bug is reproducible? Furthermore the source for that binary
would be helpful if available.

Helmut Grohne
#310445#29
Date:
2007-03-06 12:32:14 UTC
From:
To:
tag 310445 moreinfo
severity 310445 normal
thanks

There are new versions of glibc available. Could you perhaps recheck
whether this bug is reproducible? Furthermore the source for that binary
would be helpful if available.

Helmut Grohne
#310445#34
Date:
2007-04-15 11:08:42 UTC
From:
To:
  Rationale:
  * no news from submitter
  * static linking against libc is frowned upon, and mostly unsupported
    upstream.
#310445#39
Date:
2007-04-19 09:07:27 UTC
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This is something I was not aware of and should be mentioned in the
libc6-dev package description.