Static linking considered harmful

[Andy Green]

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.

-Andy