[Bug 566171] Review Request: libhid - A userspace USB HID acess library

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Sat Feb 27 14:41:56 UTC 2010


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--- Comment #11 from Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> 2010-02-27 09:41:54 EST ---
It appears to be personal preference only. A single file for each program, and
no dependency on any external DSOs. Some people like to do that even if it
isn't necessary.


Sometimes but rarely there is a reason for static linking. E.g. just recently a
tiny plugin interface library in the Package Review queue required static
linking. Its implementation used C/C++ static storage, which would be shared by
multiple plugins dlopen'ed by the same process. Only by linking the library
statically with every plugin, each plugin gets its own independent storage.

* Static Linking Considered Harmful
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html

* There is a small camp of people which like to link _special_ applications
statically,
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pertusus#On_static_library_packaging_for_numerical_and_data_processing
However, that doesn't have backup from Fedora's packaging comittee.

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