On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:48 +0000, Peter Jr. Quiring wrote: > I'm a C++ programmer that is porting from Windows to the Linux world. So > far things are great. I've recently tried to use the -static option with > gcc to generate binaries that are more portable, and so far it works. the problem is that due to a bunch of technicalities, -static binaries are LESS portable in linux, not more portable. http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html However there is a middle ground; static link only the lib(s) that are a real portability problem, eg libstdc++, but not the rest. (at which point you need to be careful wrt the LGPL already but I don't know the exact details of the libstdc++ license, it may well have an exception for this). Linking openssl static sounds like a nightmare from a security update pov.... it's better to avoid it anyway in non-core-OS software due to the very unstable ABI. btw the way to only link libstdc++ static is this: -Wl,-static -lstdc++ -Wl,-dynamic -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
