> Only the most trivial libraries actually support it.
... what kind of nonsense is that? Almost every library supports static linking to a basic degree at least. Heck, I statically link giant things like Qt and Boost every day at work.
I understand, but the question then becomes why your library depends on dlopen and why you don't offer an alternative static method as Qt's "plugins" do. Doesn't seem like good design on the part of the NSS devs to me, and probably a poor choice of library on the part of the systemd devs to me. But maybe I'm missing something.
... what kind of nonsense is that? Almost every library supports static linking to a basic degree at least. Heck, I statically link giant things like Qt and Boost every day at work.