On 10/04/2016 23:08, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:28:02PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: >> >> On 10/04/2016 08:05, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> > The only use case I could imagine is to create an executable that can >>> > run outside of Debian. >> Static builds are still common in (parts of) scientific computing. >> Two main reasons: >> >> (1) When performance matters. Here we need the static library to be >> built without >> position independent code. > That's the funny part. Some use cases require non-PIC static libraries, > and others require PIC static libraries. Should we then ship both? I > think we can all agree that would be terrible. So why prioritize one > over the other? What uses require PIC static libraries that cannot be satisfied by building -static --whole-archive ? > Mike Alastair
-- Alastair McKinstry, <alast...@sceal.ie>, <mckins...@debian.org>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry Misentropy: doubting that the Universe is becoming more disordered.
