On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:29:44AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > > 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 You can bundle sets of dynamic libraries with an application > > computations should have static libraries kept. > > This seems like a non sequitur. What's special about numerical > computations? One reason there for static is to avoid the elf register overhead, but that isn't so bad nowdays -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list