On 27/05/07, Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> someone is hell bent on producing statically linked binaries, then > they can download the source for the libraries they need and build and > link statically against them. Of course, but it would be way better for them if we could help them.
Actually, having read through your and Axel's emails I can see why you're so keen to see static library packages available. Actually, another use case is when you have a cluster of Fedora machines set up with a front end node where users do their work, and a load of back end compute nodes with a heavily stripped down installation, you may want statically linked binaries for executing under MPI on those nodes - this is a situation I have come across and used, and has nothing to do with the portability to different platforms thing. So, yeah, I can see why you might want static libs packages, even though more often than not, they're abused by users. J. -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
