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

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

On 9/15/22 14:36, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
> On 15/09/2022 08:18, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote:
>> On 9/15/22 14:00, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
>>> Em qui., 15 de set. de 2022 07:06, Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel
>>> <fir...@li...> escreveu:
>>>
>>>      >
>>>      >   Why don't force build with static libs?
>>>      >
>>>
>>>      In what way it's better than own dynamic libraries?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not put files in system lib outside of a package manager.
>>>
>> Using own dynamic libraries does not require putting something into
>> system lib .
>>
> I'm talking about this:
>
>> This is solved by install script - it creates symlink to
> /inst/path/firebird/lib/.tm/libtommath.so.0 in system lib directory
> (provided it's missing).

If we decide to _always_ provide own dynamic libraries (logically it's 
like using static one but does not require duplicating code) this trick 
becomes not needed any more.