>From tytso@thunk.org Fri Jan 4 16:41:00 2002 . Due to a bug inside either the linker or glibc it is not possible to link cdrecord and similar programs statically. If you like, I could check again and send you the error messages. >So if you link statically, your programs will run sanely accross a >much larger part of the Linux installed base, and across a much larger >set of programs than if you link dynamically and hope for the best. If the ld/libc problem was fixed - may be... >P.S. On a completely unrelated note, while I have you here, how well >do DVD recorders work with Linux these days? Some folks have claimed >that cdreocrd will "just work" --- is that true? cdrecord-ProDVD is one of the very first DVD-R/DVD-RW recording programs. It started 4 years ago, when a drive was 18000 $ and a media was 70 $. As DVD recording is not a common feature and from some bad experiences with companies who did steel in one case e.g. cdrecord/Linux for a commercial closed source project, I am curently not making this program OSS. It would be too simple for companies that currently don't have DVD-R technoligy to steel the code.... You may check a test binary from it writes unlimited in dummy mode and limited to 1 GB in real mode. ... don't forget to use one of the latest Linux kernels as there was a bug in the ISO-9660 filesystem code that prevented DVD sized media to work in Linux. Mkisofs did recently get UDF support and passed the Philips UDF conformance test for Video DVD media. It still has to be enhanced as it currently binds UDF name space to Joliet namespace which is a bad idea.: