Re: [Firebird-devel] Building Firebird Linux with --with-builtin-tommath

[Alex P. <pes...@ma...>]

On 9/15/22 12:30, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote 15.09.2022 11:08:
>>> Also, it's different in the sense that official package builds and
>>> package tomcrypt, but not tommath.
>>
>> We did discuss sometimes ago why for universal binary package we have 
>> to use built-in tomcrypt.
>> Data structures, passed In it's API, depend upon compilation flags. 
>> It's pretty easy to get an error in API call or even segfault due to 
>> it. Myself lost a lot of time when started to work with it and did 
>> not have correct defines when included tomcrypt.h. (At least it was 
>> so 5 years ago - may be fixed in fresh versions?)
>> With tommath there are no such issues...
>
>   Why don't force build with static libs?
>

In what way it's better than own dynamic libraries?