Re: fileutils static

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

* Russ Allbery writes:

> Brad Van Orden <address@hidden> writes:
>> Please forgive if this is a basic question, but is there a way to
>> compile the utilities such that they don't use dynamic libraries
>> under Solaris 7?  I'm trying to get some static utilities (such as
>> 'ls') to use under some chrooted ftp accounts.

> It's not possible to build static on Solaris any binary that calls
> getpwnam or any other function that goes through the nsswitch
> mechanism.
Are you sure?  Because on GNU and on GNU/Linux (actually, anything that uses
GNU libc) platforms you can make the whole thing go away if you make a
decent /etc/nsswitch.conf file. I guess something like:

passwd: files [NOTFOUND=continue]

Should work...

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Alfred M. Szmidt