Static linking considered harmful

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> said:
> You persuade the ISVs to stop using static linking by proving them with
> more stable API's and interfaces to improve on the current LSB, along
> with easy ways to build a back compatible binary

It would be nice if there was an easy way to build a binary that is
backwards compatible.  However, ISVs that want to build such should
probably build on the oldest version they want to support; how else will
they know if it really even runs there?
-- 
Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.