/lib and /usr/lib

I was told to bring this question here from the newbie fourm so.....

Maybe this is slighty above Newbie, not sure. The two subject directories, from what I understand, contain c and c++ libraries needed for dynamically linked apps. So....would a linux system need anything in those directories if every app on the system was compiled statically?

The responder said that SO libraries are still needed. Is this true? I only ask because I have a minimal linux I created and boots and seems to run fine with nothing in the /lib and /usr/lib directories? But I am still new enough to linux to know I may not be seeing everything. Any advice is appreciated.

Joe

If all executables are statically linked (with the correct modules) they will run without dld.

Personally I'd find it rather un-economic to have the same 20 chunks
of code in RAM (or on disk, for that matter) 100 times, specially
if they happened to add up to 50 MB or more ;}

And to answer the actual question: no, you wouldn't need those
any more ...


Cheers,
Tink

Reading the (other)thread again reveals that I might have interpreted it wrong. I was under the impression that TS wanted to compile statically.

Sorry to TS if I misinformed you