On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:56:48PM +0000, James Troup wrote: > Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > However disks are cheap enough that it seems reasonable to ask > > people doing development to go buy a big disk. > It's not about disks so much as bandwidth. Disk may be cheap, but > bandwidth isn't, at lesast not universally. I've also no idea who > would want or need static libraries in this day and age, but maybe I'm > missing something obvious.
LSB compliant programs have to either be statically linked, or distributed with the dynamic versions, of all the libraries they use, bar a few. Having the .a's available for that may be useful. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``Dear Anthony Towns: [...] Congratulations -- you are now certified as a Red Hat Certified Engineer!''
