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I always thought you could statically link glibc - but your executable will be huge as it needs to pull in the entire plus extras. Regardless - I'm glad I'm no

• alanpost 11y ago
  IME you can statically link glibc, but your statically linked binary will still call ld.so.
  • mcguire 11y ago
    The NSS stuff? And something else? There's some specific things that are supposed to be modular library-wise.
    • edwintorok 11y ago
      I think you usually get a warning at link-time if you try to statically link GCC and use a function that requires matching libc version at runtime, getaddrinfo was the one I remembered but there are certainly more functions like that: x.c:(.text+0x85): warning: Using 'getaddrinfo' in statically linked applications requires at runtime the shared libraries from the glibc version used for linking