[11317] in Athena Bugs
sun4 7.6P: libnsl.a: some object files can't be statically linked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Sun Oct 31 15:12:19 1993
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 93 15:12:11 EST
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
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System name: triad
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 7.6P
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Statically link a program that calls gethostbyname().
What's wrong:
There are a couple of objects in libnsl.a
which require the dynamic linking routines:
; cat foo.c
main () { (void) gethostbyname ("foo"); }
; gcc -static foo.c -lnsl
Undefined first referenced
symbol in file
dlerror /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
dlopen /usr/lib/libnsl.a(gethostent.o)
dlsym /usr/lib/libnsl.a(gethostent.o)
dlclose /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
dgettext /usr/lib/libnsl.a(netdir.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to a.out
What should have happened:
I should be able to statically link with these
objects.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
gethostbyname (3n)
