Suggestion: Static libs policy, a draft (was: Re: Static linking considered harmful)
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 27 18:22:34 UTC 2006
Dmitry Butskoy (buc at odusz.so-cdu.ru) said:
> 1. IF a library is needed for some binary which are built static in
> Core, such a library must have static variant too.
> In other words, for all statically linked executables in Core
> (recovering, init/boot time etc.), all the libraries which take place in
> the correspond static linkage must be present.
Obviously. This is sort of prerequisite for self-hosting.
One issue with separate, auto-generated -devel-static packages - how
do you handle dependencies? Or do you just handwave around the fact
that (for example) kudzu-devel requires pciutils-devel?
Bill
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