static linking

[Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On 07/26/2015 05:19 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> The former is trickier on arch in particular (not related to Dicebot's
> choice) because they don't distributed static versions of library files
> as a matter of policy.

Yes, quite a few distributions no longer support fully static linking.
Some, e.g. hardened gentoo, don't allow it for security reasons (they
use ASLR on PIE).