On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 05:08:50PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
There are entire non-C language toolchains in
Fedora that are based on static compilation - eg OCaml
Although I'm nit-picking, this isn't entirely true.
OCaml doesn't statically link C code, as you can see from:
$ ldd /usr/bin/virt-builder
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffedf3e2000)
libguestfs.so.0 => /lib64/libguestfs.so.0 (0x00007fbc8210c000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fbc81eee000)
libtinfo.so.6 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007fbc81cc2000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007fbc81a8c000)
liblzma.so.5 => /lib64/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fbc81866000)
libxml2.so.2 => /lib64/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007fbc814fd000)
libyajl.so.2 => /lib64/libyajl.so.2 (0x00007fbc812f3000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fbc80fe2000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fbc80dde000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fbc80bc7000)
[... continued for many more lines ...]
And even after that there are now options for dynamically linking
OCaml code, it's just that they're not very widely used upstream.
Since OCaml pays attention to safety this isn't so much of a problem
as with C.
Rich.
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