Static linking considered harmful

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Fri Nov 24 19:44:47 UTC 2006



Axel Thimm wrote:
>> +1, although it would be a good idea to put the static libs in a
>> seperate sub package. ( /me has no need for such a beast)
> 
> Have you seen Dmitry Butskoy's post on this? He has created debuginfo
> macros that automatically cater for that (packages are then named
> foo-static, but that's tunable) w/o any changes in existing
> specfiles.
> 

Yeah I've seen that but I'm not sure if I like that, thats because I'm
not sure if we should offer static libs for all packages or only for
certain ones (like glibc, libstdc++, some standard X11 libs)

Regards,

Hans




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