readdir in static binaries (glibc-2.3.1)

[Clifford Wolf]

Hi,

the following is with glibc-2.3.1 and gcc-3.2 on linux-2.4.19.

While debugging a problem with ldconfig I've found the this bug: For some
reason readdir() always returns NULL if the binary is built statically.
The following program

        #include <stdio.h>
        #include <dirent.h>

        int main() {
                DIR *dir;
                struct dirent *entry;

                dir=opendir("/");
                while ( (entry = readdir(dir)) != NULL ) {
                        printf("%s\n", entry->d_name);
                }
                closedir(dir);
                return 0;
        }

works fine if built with 'gcc -o demo demo.c'. But if I build exactly
the same program with 'gcc -static -o demo demo.c' I only get an empty
output.

Adding an additional printf at the end of the program shows that stdout
is working fine (i.e. buffers are flushed correctly).

This problem makes 'ldconfig' not finding any libraries here.

yours,
 - clifford

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