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

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

On 9/15/22 17:07, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
> Alex Peshkoff via Firebird-devel wrote 15.09.2022 12:04:
>>>> 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?
>
>   Surely no problem with API/ABI.

Therefore we link some problematic libraries statically.

>   No mess and vulnerability with dynamic library search path.

I see no mess with it but it depends on POV

>   No multiplying of points above with every third-party plugin.
>

May be - never used to deal with third-party plugins myself.

On the other hand tomcrypt is successfully used in our sample plugin - 
which is problematic with static linking. For me that appears more 
interesting and useful.
Not to say about code duplication.