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From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: Retiring static libpam support
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On 13 Jun 2005, at 17:49, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> writes:
>> You can link statically to some libraries and dynamically to others
>> - that might work quite well. You would probably end up linking
>> dynamically to libc otherwise you might get two copies of libc when
>> you load a pam module.
>
> That won't help.  You'll still end up with two copies of *libpam*.

It depends exactly what Julian needs to link with statically - it=20
wasn't clear. When I build my own software 'statically' I tend to still=20=

link to the system libraries dynamically.