On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > On Sat, 21 Sep 1996, llucius wrote: > > > I'm sorry it was the "-N" link option that causes "ae" to be linked > > statically. Is it really necessary to use the option? > > > Well, my man page says: > > > -N specifies readable and writable text and data sec- > tions. If the output format supports Unix style > magic numbers, the output is marked as OMAGIC. > > When you use the `-N' option, the linker does not > page-align the data segment. > > none of which seems to have anything to do with static vs shared > libraries.
In order to achieve the above on an ELF system, ld has to link statically. -N should normally never be used on ELF binaries. 4.1 of the policy manual says not to do it also: The -N flag should not be used. On a.out systems it may have been useful for some very small binaries, but for ELF it has no good effect. Guy
