Patrice Dumas writes: > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:08:00AM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > We should more proactively discourage static linking in FC7+, for > > reasons for that see > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html > > > > Removing libc.a would be most effective, but I'm afraid we still need > > a handful of statically linked binaries for boot time initialization and > > system recovery utilities. > > Not only. There are cases when all those issues are moot, a prominent one > being for numerical models. Compiling models statically makes it possible > to run them on any other linux (including different fedora version) box > without recompiling. So all the libraries that can be used for numerical > computations should have static libraries kept. This seems like a non sequitur. What's special about numerical computations? Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
