On 27/05/07, Patrice Dumas pertusus@free.fr wrote:
someone is hell bent on producing statically linked binaries, then they can download the source for the libraries they need and build and link statically against them.
Of course, but it would be way better for them if we could help them.
Actually, having read through your and Axel's emails I can see why you're so keen to see static library packages available. Actually, another use case is when you have a cluster of Fedora machines set up with a front end node where users do their work, and a load of back end compute nodes with a heavily stripped down installation, you may want statically linked binaries for executing under MPI on those nodes - this is a situation I have come across and used, and has nothing to do with the portability to different platforms thing. So, yeah, I can see why you might want static libs packages, even though more often than not, they're abused by users.
J.