[Pam-developers] Re: linux-pam and static linking?

On Tue, Mar 22, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 12:51:10PM +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I tried to compile Linux-PAM today with "--enable-static-modules". > > It's a nightmare :( > > It used to be compileable right after commit > 3c69856acf9af74368b789b1ed867b433db0ed02. That's over 4 years ago ;)

> > Some problems are easy fixable, but we have a structural problem: > > I get a verlong long list of "multiple definition of" errors. > > Every module compiled static provides the same function names: > > pam_sm_open_session, pam_sm_close_session, etc. > > Looks like current toolchain does not like this. > > It might be a bug in toolchain. I don't think so. From what I read until now, it only worked by pure luck. The correct fix would be, to declare all pam_sm_* functions static if we compile PAM static.

But I prefer to remove that code.