Subject: Re: static vs. dynamic runtime linking, again (was: PAM and su -K)
To: James Chacon <jmc@netbsd.org>
From: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/25/2005 20:00:06
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 19:52, James Chacon wrote:
> Yes. However gcc compeltely fails here. I as the user didn't add -L....
> (some gnu specific path to libgcc_s) nor did I add a -lgcc. It's done
> by the compiler and completely hidden from me. Which makes it completely
> broken to the average user because it's *not* documented clearly at all...

If this is not the case, you're clearly not talking about compiling on a 
normal NetBSD system -- because libgcc_s *is* in /usr/lib, in the default 
search path -- so perhaps you should take this discussion elsewhere.