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To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>
Cc: jdp@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: "Interesting" failure mode for static linking with shared libs. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:01:42 +0100."
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 01:41:05 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> As a workaround for a static binary, you should be able to use
>   -Xlinker -Bstatic
> instead of
>   -static

Actually, it appears that just -Xlinker is necessary; it works
fine in conjunction with -static.  Thanks for this most helpful
tip!  I can see a *lot* of scenarios where I'll be using
-Xlinker in the future.  I didn't even know about that flag. :)

- Jordan


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