Static linking considered harmful
Dmitry Butskoy
buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Wed Nov 22 16:24:15 UTC 2006
Alan Cox wrote:
>Far simpler, cleaner and more friendly will be to dump the static libraries
>into libfoo-devel-static packages which are not in the default install. That
>ensures people who need to can do static links and the default behaviour is
>that they are not there. The -static packages could even get dropped off the
>CD easily enough once the mechanisms for handling one srpm spitting out
>binary components for extras and core are sorted
>
>
BTW, such a "-static" subpackages might be handled the same way as
"-debuginfo". Consider some example of needed rpm macros (attached
below), written one year ago when similar topic was discussed at
fedore-extras-devel list.
Dmitry Butskoy
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy
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