On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 11:24 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 05:08:00AM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We should more proactively discourage static linking in FC7+, for
> reasons for that see
>
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html
>
> Removing libc.a would be most effective, but I'm afraid we still need
> a handful of statically linked binaries for boot time initialization and
> system recovery utilities.
Not only. There are cases when all those issues are moot, a prominent one
being for numerical models. Compiling models statically makes it possible
to run them on any other linux (including different fedora version) box
without recompiling
actually static linking DECREASES that portability !!