- Rebuild glibc on RH 8.0 in order to obtain static .a files for libnss_dns and libnss_files.
Rebuilding glibc
According to Sasha I downloaded a copy of glibc-2.2.93.5.src.rpm. Next I modified the spec file to include --enable-static-nss=yes. In attempting to rebuild using rpmbuild -bb I received notice that I had to get and install gd-devel-1.8.4-9.i386.rpm and libpng-devel-1.2.2-8.i386.rpm. After that the rpmbuild worked OK and I copied the libraries like so:
$ cp /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.2.93/build-i386-linux/resolv/libnss_dns.a /usr/lib/libnss_dns.a $ cp /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/glibc-2.2.93/build-i385-linux/nss/libnss_files.a /usr/lib/libnss_files.a