gnucash's dependencies criticized

Michael P. Soulier msoulier@storm.ca
Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:54:43 -0400


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On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 04:28:23AM +1000, Tyson Dowd wrote:
> I did some work on a statically linked version, and one of the big
> problems with that packages and libraries don't always provide static
> libraries.  Also, programs such as gnome-config only provide
> configuration settings for dynamic linking, they are often different
> then dynamic linking.  This seems tobe because dynamic linking is so
> popular on Linux that people are ignoring static linking when testing.
> The result is that it can be very difficult to put together the static
> linking dependencies for 60 libraries.

    Lovely. What's the point if they don't provide facilities for both? You
might want one, single function from a huge library, and suddenly you have =
to
package in the huge library? That sucks.=20
    Isn't there an option when you're building the libs to build both? I se=
em
to recall it had one when I built Gtk+ on HP-UX.=20

    Mike

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