James Troup writes: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > For the record, I *need* static libraries. > > Why?
I need some programs I built to run on my different accounts on machines running a lot of different GNU/Linux distributions, Debian, Redhat, Mandrake, etc... with even several versions of each[1]. Some accounts are even NFS-shared. The less painful way to do that for me is to build the application shared against a old libc and static against most libs[2]. Also I need static libs in *stable*, so asking for them via a bug report is a no-go. If the concern is bandwidth then allowing to put them in libxxx-static should save some bandwidth. Is there some data about bandwidth use per packages available ? I am sure we will find more better way to reduce bandwidth than getting rid of static libraries. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1] Of course I am not the sysadmin! [2] Some distributions's use of soname is hopeless, e.g. Mandrake has changed soname of readline4 twice.
