On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:27:18PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
bugzilla it against rpmlint, if you like to.
Ok, that's what I'll do.
Another reason may be the efficiency, as as demonstrated by Enrico numbers on tiny daemons, linking statically may lead to much more efficient executables.
What some people call efficiency, I call rending a distro unmaintainable and pimping "Linux" - To me, it's not much different from pimping a car by installing an oxygen bottle to "make it faster".
It may not be at the distro level. But I think that we shouldn't prevent users to link statically their apps when it makes them faster.
Well, your needs, i.e. "cross-distro binaries", are far from being exotic. Many people before you went into trap you still seem to be trapped into, before you, so be it :-)
I really don't understand what trap you are speaking about. I statically commpile a model on a computer then copy it over to other computers (which may have different shared libraries or even not the libraries at all) and run it (with different parameters of course) using a simple script to drive all the runs. What problem is there with that?
-- Pat