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by car54whereareu 4879 days ago
Actually if you import "net" go links to libc.so and some others.
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stock_toaster 4879 days ago
I believe "net" does so for native dns lookups. You can disable that by building go with 'CGO_ENABLED=0', if desired.
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4ad 4878 days ago
That is correct. It uses libc for resolving names because systems might be configured to use NIS or LDAP before DNS. With cgo disabled it defaults to using its own DNS resolver and resolv.conf.
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papsosouid 4879 days ago
Ah, if the original bulletpoints for go are wrong then ghc may be more comparable than I figured. Can you statically link go binaries? As in, if I am using a go postgresql binding, can I build a binary with libpq (the postgresql C library) linked in statically, so it can be deployed on servers with no postgresql libraries installed?
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cdoxsey 4879 days ago
From what I understand cgo doesn't currently support static linking like this.
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