Static Linking

• glaucus removes static libraries
• In the toolchain, the only required static library before musl is libgcc.a
• glaucus’s toolchain supports static linking

References

• https://gavinhoward.com/2021/01/dynamic-linking-needs-to-die/
• https://gavinhoward.com/2021/10/static-linking-considered-harmful-considered-harmful/
• https://drewdevault.com/dynlib.html

LFS

• The LFS editors discourage building and installing static libraries.
• Most static libraries have been made obsolete in a modern Linux system.
• Linking a static library into a program can be detrimental. If an update to the library is needed to remove a security problem, every program that uses the static library will need to be relinked with the new library.
• Since the use of static libraries is not always obvious, the relevant programs (and the procedures needed to do the linking) may not even be known.

BLFS

• https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/libraries.html