From df5189269074042a60fa87425ef8a01a9aaa4af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:42:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added compile-time warning for STATIC+GLIBC build

---
 applets/applets.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/applets/applets.c b/applets/applets.c
index 10d4c948c..868fa50e5 100644
--- a/applets/applets.c
+++ b/applets/applets.c
@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <assert.h>
 
+#if ENABLE_STATIC && __GLIBC__
+#warning Static linking against glibc produces buggy executables
+#warning (glibc doesn't cope well with ld --gc-sections).
+#warning See http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3400
+#warning Note that glibc is utterly unsuitable for static linking anyway.
+#endif
+
 #if ENABLE_SHOW_USAGE && !ENABLE_FEATURE_COMPRESS_USAGE
 static const char usage_messages[] =
 #define MAKE_USAGE