[SSSD] [PATCHES] Build-system improvements

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Thu May 19 11:29:57 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 10:54 +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 05:53 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > I'm debating whether we should be statically linking all of this common
> > code at all, or whether the libsss_util.la should just become a shared
> > library in its own right. For the moment I've kept it as-is, but as of
> > this patch, it's trivial to change over to a shared library. Comments
> > welcome.
> 
> What would the benefit be except for a smaller executable size? We're
> never going to be shipping it separately..

Well, smaller executable size is helpful for embedded environments (or
even just making our footprint on a LiveCD smaller. I'm also considering
that some of our utility features (like the sysdb interface) should
probably become a library of its own that we DO expose.
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