On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:06:20PM +0100, Robert Spanton wrote: > I've recently had to link a fair amount of my work statically so that > it'll run on a cluster of RHEL machines. Unfortunately, I am just a > user of these machines, and so I don't have the power to get them to run > Fedora or even to get the admins to install RHEL packages in a timely > manner. Building statically also helps me to eliminate as many of the > inevitable fractional differences between cluster nodes as possible, to > achieve reproducible results from simulation runs. > > However, only a few packages in Fedora provide -static variants. This > has meant that I've had to locally build these, which is obviously not > desirable from a maintenance perspective. > > So, would be acceptable to register requests for -static package > variants as tickets on bugzilla? Or is there a better way to try to > encourage people to generate these packages? Better yet is not to link statically. http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html Jakub -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
