Static linking considered harmful
Olivier Galibert
galibert at pobox.com
Wed Nov 22 19:57:57 UTC 2006
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:08:34AM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
> Olivier Galibert wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:53:58AM +0000, Andy Green wrote:
>
> >>You could alter your build methodology so that each of the target
> >>boxes,eg, rebuilds an SRPM with the local library environment? You need
> >>the compiler and -devel bits and bobs then on the boxes.
> >
> >That's the point where he should use gentoo and not fedora.
>
> But he isn't just using Fedora, he has a bunch of not very compatible OS
> installs of varying ages, and he would need to work around this change
> one way or another. I didn't miss the joke but if he could actually use
> Gentoo or anything else that was the same on all the boxes that would
> indeed solve his problem.
It was only half-a-joke. If the Fedora solution to backwards binary
compatibility is "recompile locally every application", then Gentoo is
much better at that kind of job.
OG.
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