Static linking considered harmful

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Wed Nov 22 21:09:43 UTC 2006


On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 03:07:08PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> Care to explain from what you gathered "recompile locally every
> application"?  All I (and others) said is that "linking statically
> is almost always a bad idea and not the right answer for binary
> compatibility", that's very different from "recompile locally everything".

It is a good answer as long as kernel >= 2.6.9 is used? Or did I miss 
something? Well, actually, you said that ;-)

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Pat




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