Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566171 --- Comment #11 from Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> 2010-02-27 09:41:54 EST --- It appears to be personal preference only. A single file for each program, and no dependency on any external DSOs. Some people like to do that even if it isn't necessary. Sometimes but rarely there is a reason for static linking. E.g. just recently a tiny plugin interface library in the Package Review queue required static linking. Its implementation used C/C++ static storage, which would be shared by multiple plugins dlopen'ed by the same process. Only by linking the library statically with every plugin, each plugin gets its own independent storage. * Static Linking Considered Harmful http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html * There is a small camp of people which like to link _special_ applications statically, https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pertusus#On_static_library_packaging_for_numerical_and_data_processing However, that doesn't have backup from Fedora's packaging comittee. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review