Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:00:10 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: static vs dynamic compiling... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.971005155956.220j-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <19971005134214.NH30632@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, J Wunsch wrote:
> As The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> > I'm curious as to why I get the following error when attempting
> > to compile using -static:
> >
> > gcc -static pg_dump.o common.o -o pg_dump -L../../interfaces/libpq -lpq \
> > -L/usr/local/lib -lcrypt -lcompat -lln -lm -lreadline -ltermcap \
> > -lcurses
> > ld: No reference to __DYNAMIC
> > gmake: *** [pg_dump] Error 1
>
> Because dlopen(3) & friends are only available on dynamically linked
> binaries (in our a.out, as i understand it).
Ack, okay. That explains it right there :(
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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