Static linking considered harmful

[Olivier Galibert]

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.