Static linking considered harmful

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 06:58:44AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:29:44AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> >  > 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 
> You can bundle sets of dynamic libraries with an application

Of course, but that's very impractical, while adding -static to the 
compilation line is really easy.

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Pat