On 09/15/2010 05:06 PM, Robert Spanton wrote: > Hi, > > 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? You might find the Fedora packaging guidelines for packaging static libraries helps explain the rationale a bit more: http://tinyurl.com/kz4rp [fedoraproject.org] There have also been several discussions of this on the fedora lists over the years, e.g.: http://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg48361.html Regards, Bryn. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
