Re: Building all static

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> Unless someone shouts me down, then according to the principle of least
> surprise, I'm inclined to change the semantics to:
>
>  -static       do not do any dynamic linking at all
>  -lt-static    do not do any dynamic linking of libtool libraries
>
> (We can keep -all-static as an alias to -static).

This seems like a particularly bad idea to me.  What is the value of 
changing existing documented libtool behavior?

The main purpose of building a completely static program is to satisfy 
security or system bootstrap requirements (/usr partition not 
mounted).  It is not always possible to build a completely static 
program.  It is not usually desirable to build a completely static 
program.  Completely static programs don't necessarily work properly 
when copied to a somewhat different processor type with the same OS, 
or a different kernel version.

Bob
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