Re: [Monotone-devel] Problem with monotone 0.29

[Zack Weinberg]

On 8/24/06, Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> binaries compiled with glibc 2.3, even
> with the -static switch, still require glibc 2.3 be available to
> fully work.  It's _possible_ this isn't your problem -- the weird
> not-quite-static issues only show up in certain cases.  But it's
> something to watch out for.

Note that one of the problem cases is name lookup; in particular,
hostname to IP address lookup, which monotone definitely does.  (In a
well-meaning but poorly-thought-out attempt to make /etc/nsswitch.conf
work for static binaries, it tries to dynload whichever libnss_*
modules are relevant, and their dependencies, and thus winds up
loading a second copy of libc into the address space.  As this is one
of those things that only ever works by accident, well...  And
naturally it won't even come close to working if you haven't got a
complete glibc2.3 install.)

iconv() is also affected, I believe; and even if we didn't use that
directly, the library has a habit of using it behind your back to
implement locale operations.

zw