Static linking considered harmful

[Arjan van de Ven]

> 
> > Your only argument seems to be that these skillful programmers, that
> > presumably have advanced math degrees if they're programming scientific
> > number crunching apps, and can figure out how to statically compile
> > their app, are too retarded to write a trivial one line wrapper script,
> > run ldd on their app, and tar up their app with the libs it needs.
> 
> Of course they can, but it is less simple, why do something complicated 
> when something simple is available? 

because the simple case breaks.

Now the goal then should maybe be "make packaging self contained apps as
easy as sticking -static on cflags"....