Static linking considered harmful
Alan Cox
alan at redhat.com
Wed Nov 22 11:58:44 UTC 2006
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:29:44AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > Not only. There are cases when all those issues are moot, a prominent one
> > being for numerical models. Compiling models statically makes it possible
> > to run them on any other linux (including different fedora version) box
> > without recompiling. So all the libraries that can be used for numerical
You can bundle sets of dynamic libraries with an application
> > computations should have static libraries kept.
>
> This seems like a non sequitur. What's special about numerical
> computations?
One reason there for static is to avoid the elf register overhead, but that
isn't so bad nowdays
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