static libs ... again

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Quentin Spencer wrote:
> 
>>  See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181897 for 
>> the reasoning. At this point, here are my options:
>>
>> 1. tell the user that static libs are bad and to go use another distro
>> 2. put them back in
>> 3. create a -static package
>>
>> I'm not going to do option 1.
> 
> 
> Corrolary:  As I don't understand the users' precise requirements for 
> static libs, perhaps asking them why dynamic linking is not sufficient?

I read up a bit on Condor, and nowhere have I seen that it (or it's 
checkpointing feature) requires the use of statically-linked binaries 
(only that binaries be statically linked with the Condor libs).

I'd ask the submitter for clarification.

-- Rex