[Fedora-packaging] Package-internal static linkage

[Lubomir Rintel]

On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 22:56 +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-02 at 13:52 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Do the "no static linking" rules apply equally also to cases where the lib and 
> > the executable packaged are from the same package build?
> 
> Given the objective of the rule, which I believe is to prevent copies of
> compiled code being out of sync so that issues (especially security)
> won't stay unfixed an unnoticed for some of the copies, there's no
> problem with intra-package static link. That is, as long as you don't
> ship the static library that other packages could link against.
> 
> One subtle advantage of dynamic linking would be saving space by making
> the executable image as well as text of the running process smaller, but
> I guess in your case (trading space for performance) is a quite good
> deal.

Uff, sorry, no need for you to read my reply, pretty much repeating what
Ralf and Toshio said. I should have refreshed mailbox once more before
posting.

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