On 07/13/2016 12:29 AM, Stefan Nuxoll wrote: > Rust supports dynamic linking, would it be worth investigating that > route instead of copying the proposed Go guidelines? I'm not against > static linking at all costs, but it would make package maintenance > (especially security updates) a lot more pleasant.
To be clear, we will still dynamically link to foreign libraries. Rust does support dynamic linking, but there's no stable ABI. So from a packaging perspective, that really defeats the point. Every rebuild of a library would potentially need a rebuild of its dependents. There's also support for creating static libraries (*.rlib), but that will surely have ABI issues too. So with static linking from source-based devel packages, we only have to rebuild the leaves that actually ship an executable. I think that's the best scenario for now. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
