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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>
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Subject: Re: static vs dynamic compiling...
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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