hill0093 writes: > > I think there is some kind of misunderstanding. I am talking about > executable binaries like fortran, pascal, and c compilers all > normally produced say 10 years ago, not the java byte codes. Most people stopped doing that for a very good reason. A little while ago there was a serious security hole found in zlib, and it turned out that zlib was statically linked to 100 or so different packages. A single Linux distribution had very quickly to produce 100 emergency erratum packages! Most people said "never again." :-) Andrew.
