Once upon a time, Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > FWIW again from the number crunching community, sometimes statically > linking numerical libs shows performance gains (although when the > problem domain is of that kind the libs tend to be headers-only with > inlining), and some only commercial available libs only offer static > libs. Not all the number crunching community statically links. For example, my father works for NASA, and for his project, they rebuild from source everywhere. This is a requirement since they run the project on a number of platforms (Linux, Solaris, Windows/Cygwin, Tru64, IRIX). > Which brings yet another argument in favour of not disallowing > statically builds: ISVs love to use these in order to have one build > for the whole Linux world. Unless these vendors include object code suitable for re-linking against a different glibc, they are violating the LGPL if they link against glibc. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
