Once upon a time Wednesday 22 November 2006 4:08 am, 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 The Fedora Packaging guidelines for quite some time have actively been discouraging static linking. Very few applications have gotten though with static libraries. We have also push to have upstream make shared libraries if they do not see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196393 as an example. yes Red Hat is upstream so its all the more reason to do the right thing. But this is definetly something that has been on its way for awhile now. I give a big +1 lets make it happen. Dennis -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list