On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 06:11:21PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > 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 There are times when static linking is a useful. Robert clearly describes one in his original post. I also use static linking as a way to distribute binaries that will run on a range of Linux distros[*]. Uli's claim that static linking's benefits "never been the case and never will be the case" is complete drivel IMHO. Rich. [*] In fact, I wrote a nice little script to help: http://git.annexia.org/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=relink-static.sh;hb=HEAD -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
