Static linking considered harmful

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:08:00AM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> We should more proactively discourage static linking in FC7+, for
> reasons for that see
> http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html
> 
> Removing libc.a would be most effective, but I'm afraid we still need
> a handful of statically linked binaries for boot time initialization and
> system recovery utilities.

Not only. There are cases when all those issues are moot, a prominent one 
being for numerical models. Compiling models statically makes it possible
to run them on any other linux (including different fedora version) box 
without recompiling. So all the libraries that can be used for numerical 
computations should have static libraries kept. To be able to compile 
statically those kind of executables requires in turn to keep static version 
of 'standard' libraries, and also maybe some libraries used in data
processing and conversion and the like.

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Pat