Static linking considered harmful

Dmitry Butskoy buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru
Mon Nov 27 11:23:39 UTC 2006


Axel Thimm wrote:

>The typical
>situation in natural sciences is that there are more Linux versions
>around than there are employees, and sometimes statically linking is
>the only way to distribute your code to the number cruncers.
>  
>
To look the problem more clearly, maybe determine the list of libraries 
used for linking such a "numeric models" (statically)? What libs are 
used in your case exactly?
Perhaps these libraries is not so dangerous (unlike 
graphics/compress/crypt and friends) ...


~buc




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