Neil Williams wrote: > Static linking is not fully supported in Debian and therefore Emdebian. > Sometimes it might work, sometimes it will fail, sometimes it will run > but give you mysterious issues... "behaviour is undefined".
Just to be clear, modulo bugs, that's not actually the intent in Debian proper. :) Otherwise Debian wouldn't have much reason to provide static libraries at all. I suspect that when a package provides a broken static lib that most maintainers would not mind either a patch to fix it or a patch to remove the static lib. [...] > Then why bother with static linking in the first place? > > ia64 packages still exist in Debian, so why stick with the old > versions? Replace what you have with updated packages. Older versions > will be available via archive.debian.org. This is good advice anyway. Thanks, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
