static libs ... again

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 00:06 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> It is not the use I do, nor advocate ;-). As I said above it is to 
> achieve portability of the executable.

I really don't buy this argument. If you're really wanting to move a
binary from one system to another, you can just as easily move the
libraries it depends on as well. Use LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I did this on
several occasions years ago, to run a binary compiled on Red Hat on a
Debian system.
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