On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:29:44AM +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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. So all the libraries that can be used for numerical
You
can bundle sets of dynamic libraries with an application
> computations should have static libraries kept.
This seems like a non sequitur. What's special about numerical
computations?
One reason there for static is to avoid the elf register overhead, but that
isn't so bad nowdays