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Why does appcert complain about applications which statically link only libc, libnsl, libsocket, etc, but not ones which statically link some other libraries like libXm?

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Why does appcert complain about applications which statically link only libc, libnsl, libsocket, etc, but not ones which statically link some other libraries like libXm?

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Generally speaking, statically linking libraries is a bad idea, and is discouraged as a default practice in developing with Solaris. Statically linking libc, libnsl, or libsocket is a very bad idea, and is a major source of the stability problems we see with applications, hence appcert looks specifically for static linking of those libraries. In the future, appcert may check for others as well.

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