[sclug] Staticly link smbclient

[Leon Ward]

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On 7 May 2008, at 12:47, J.Mann wrote:

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> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:45:48AM +0200, pieter claassen wrote:
>> Actually, what is pie
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> Position independent executable:
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>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code
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>> My only question is: why?
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> The "-pie" option, according to "man ld":
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>  Create a position independent executable. This is currently only
>  supported on ELF platforms. Position independent executables are
>  similar to shared libraries in that they are relocated by the dynamic
>  linker to the virtual address the OS chooses for them (which can vary
>  between invocations). Like normal dynamically linked executables they
>  can be executed and symbols defined in the executable cannot be
>  overridden by shared libraries.
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> It doesn't explicitly state that "-pie" and "-static" are  
> incompatable,
> but that would appear to be the case.
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>> How did you know
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> Mostly intuition, having spent far too much time battling compilers  
> and
> linkers.
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>> Is this something they teach you at Uni?
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> No, definitely not :-)
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> Regards,
> Jon Mann.
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