Static Linking Considered HarmfulThere are still too many people out there who think (or even insist) that static linking has benefits. This has never been the case and never will be the case. Here are a few reasons why dynamic linking is superior: fixes (either security or only bug) have to be applied to only one place: the new DSO(s). If various applications are linked statically, all of them would have to be relinked. By the t
Sources Bugzilla – Bug 10652 getaddrinfo causes segfault if multithreaded and linked statically
