[openib-general] Static linking with libibverbs

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] Static linking with libibverbs
> 
>  > static linking actually can be made to work even with older library versions.
>  > See this HowTo (written on 02 of November, 2005).
>  > https://openib.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=HowToFAQ
> 
> That's not really static linking.

OK, its a difference of terms then :)

> If you try to build a true static
> executable, which contains static libc and in particular static libdl,
> there's no way the old code can work, for multiple reasons.  For one
> thing, dlopen(NULL, RTLD_NOW) doesn't work on static executables so
> libibverbs couldn't find a low-level driver that is statically linked
> in.

Does linking in low level driver work now even with -static?

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