On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 22:56 +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 13:52 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Do the "no static linking" rules apply equally also to cases where the lib and > > the executable packaged are from the same package build? > > Given the objective of the rule, which I believe is to prevent copies of > compiled code being out of sync so that issues (especially security) > won't stay unfixed an unnoticed for some of the copies, there's no > problem with intra-package static link. That is, as long as you don't > ship the static library that other packages could link against. > > One subtle advantage of dynamic linking would be saving space by making > the executable image as well as text of the running process smaller, but > I guess in your case (trading space for performance) is a quite good > deal. Uff, sorry, no need for you to read my reply, pretty much repeating what Ralf and Toshio said. I should have refreshed mailbox once more before posting. -- "Excuse all the blood" -- Dead -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
