[Nix-dev] Re: stdenv-linux depending on bootstrap-tools in stdenv-updates

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:13:19PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Hi Lluís,
> 
>  > - Link libstdc++.a instead of libstdc++.so. I read in a blog post that this
>  >   disallows further "dlopen" of shared objects with c++.
> 
> I find that very hard to believe. Are you sure that the claim is
> accurate? Did the article give any kind of reason for this restriction?
At the time of writing I did not have the link at hand. Here you have it:
http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/06/static-libstdc/ 

That's the only source I know for that claim, but I have not investigated this.