Re: [WAAAAAY OT] can't build openembedded/angstrom on f11

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday crashcourse ca>]

On Sun, 31 May 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> On 05/31/2009 04:42 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 May 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >
> >> On 05/31/2009 04:32 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >>
> >>>   um ... given your wording, can i assume that f11 is the first
> >>> fedora where this package has been broken out?  which would explain
> >>> why this builds just fine under f10 for others?
> >>
> >> Correct.
> >
> >   that appears to have fixed it.  yee ha!  buckets of thanks.  i can
> > now update the wiki page to cover f11.
>
> You might want to tell upstream that static linking isn't the
> recommended path.
>
> http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html

  and yet f11 contains the statically-linked "insmod.static"
executable, which is exactly what is being created at that step.  so
what's the difference?

rday
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