Re: [Monotone-devel] Problem with monotone 0.29

[Zack Weinberg]

On 8/27/06, Detlef Vollmann <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> >    all kinds of features in the libc (locale (through iconv), NSS,
> >    IDN, ...) require dynamic linking to load the appropriate external
> >    code.
> This is only true if some parts of the library used by monotone
> use dynamic linking.

Yes, see, we know that monotone does use library features that (in
glibc) internally use dynamic linking.  In a previous message,
hostname -> IP address lookup and character set conversion were
mentioned.

> (And I don't agree with the general statement of that page:
> there are lot's of systems around where dynamic linking is not
> available, and they work fine anyway.  But that's offtopic here.

Drepper is notorious for ignoring all systems other than Linux with
GNU libc.  What he says on that page is true *for that system*.

zw