Re: Static build of mc

["Yury V. Zaytsev" <yury shurup com>]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2016, Erdmut Pfeifer wrote:

> You don't necessarily need to create a statically linked version to get 
> it to run on a different box. just pack up all required shared libs (use 
> "ldd" to find out which) plus the dynamic loader itself. The dynamic 
> loader is normally invoked indirectly via the system, but nothing keeps 
> you from calling it directly, passing it the name of the dynamically 
> linked binary to run and the directory where the packed-up libs reside - 
> see "man ld.so" for details ("ld.so" is the generic name of the dynamic 
> loader, the actual name on today's 64-bit boxes is typically 
> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, which itself is a symlink to ld-<version>.so). The 
> loader is a statically linked binary, and thus doesn't need any libs 
> itself.

I'm not quite sure why it needs to be so complicated. Why can't you simply 
use the loader from the target system and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly?

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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev