On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 05:08 -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. > > So, I think it would be best if we could analyze what in FC7/FE7 > is linked statically, why, if it really needs to be linked that way > and what *.a libraries does it link in and kill all other *.a libraries > (unless the library is only in *.a form, examples libbfd.a, > libc_nonshared.a, libpthread_nonshared.a, libsupc++.a, libgfortranbegin.a) > and kill all other libraries. > > E.g. ideally we'd drop libpthread.a, librt.a, libstdc++.a, libgfortran.a, > libboost*.a, all GUI libs that have also *.so libs, etc. > > Thoughts? Excellent proposal, way over due. Also, the FPC had accepted proposal aim at similar objectives a couple of weeks ago: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/StaticLinkage Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
