On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Simon Burge wrote:

: Trying to test a nsswitch change on my 1.4 pmax, I get the following
: (I've indented the output of each command so it's a tad easier to read):

You wouldn't happen to have an older libc.a than your libc.so, would you?

: 	mona:/var/tmp 242> cc -static -o foo foo.c /usr/lib/libc.a

This links everything with libc.a (the last arg is redundant)...

: 	mona:/var/tmp 244> cc -o foo foo.c /usr/lib/libc.a

...while this links the first pass with libc.a and the second pass with
libc.so (the "-lc" tacked on to the end by gcc implies use of libc.so to
resolve undefined symbols in a previous translation unit).

If the answer to my first question is "yes," this is not a bug, as linking
with libc.a without -static has undefined behavior.

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