On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 19:58 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hello, > > Here is an updated version of the paragraph about shipping static > numerical libs taking into account the comments on the first version. > > The objective is to have this included in > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/StaticLibraryChanges > > at the end of 'Packaging Static Libraries'. > > > * in the case of user compiled programs doing numerical computations or > data analysis, using static libraries may be useful. Indeed it allows > to build static executables that have more chance to be run on other > platforms than the box they were compiled in, that have different > dynamic library versions or even that don't have the library installed > at all. At the same time those applications, in general, don't need > the features brought in by shared libraries (no need for nss, no > security issue, no need for iconv...). Therefore it may be acceptable > or even desirable to ship static libraries for numerical and data > processing libraries to help users needing to link statically their > locally compiled executables. The static libraries still need to be > in separate sub-packages and this doesn't means that the executables > packaged in Fedora should be link statically, this is only for users > linking locally their own programs. > > Some packagers feel that this is not the right solution for locally > compiled programs portability, since it is not general (doesn't work > with nss, iconv...). However a general solution doesn't seems to exist > yet. -1 1. This proposal is not in the distro's interest, because it causes additional bloat. 2. This proposal's focus on "numerical libs" is silly. It tries to implement a special exception into the FPC based on an application domain, while the problem actually is application domain independent. The real problem is: Cross-distro packaging of local packages, which some people (bogusly) try to approach static linkage. Ralf -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
