Re: [Notion-devel] Shared vs. Static

[Jeff B. <jef...@gm...>]

Hi Dima,

Thanks! It's a combination of things. The primary instigator is with 
regard to Fedora's packaging guidelines in that they prefer shared vs. 
static, and it including lib* in a package causes quite a commotion, 
even if lib* is only used by the software being packaged. While they do 
allow special cases, I'm trying to be "a good team player", so to speak. 
I also ask because libtu, libextl, and libmainloop are used in several 
places (especially the first two), so I thought it would make sense to 
make them into shared libraries. Particularly since everything is 
released as one package now.

Regards,
Jeff

On 01/18/2014 04:39 PM, Dima Kogan wrote:
> jef...@gm... writes:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Are there any specific reasons we're statically linking against
>> libtu/libmainloop/libextl/etc or why we can't switch to shared
>> libraries? History/inertia?
> If libwhatever is not used for anything else, static linking is less
> error prone, faster, etc. Why do you want shared libs?

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