Re: Packaging questions

[Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com>]

On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 11:57 -0600, Quentin Spencer wrote:
> I'm working on an RPM for GLPK 
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html), and I'm wondering the best 
> approach to packaging. According to changelog notes in the Debian 
> packages and some old discussion on the GLPK mailing list, the library 
> is not reentrant and therefore should be built as only a static library,

I don't know what being (non-)reentrant would have to do with being a
shared or static library. Can you elaborate?

Nils
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