On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 05:08:50PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > There are entire non-C language toolchains in > Fedora that are based on static compilation - eg OCaml
Although I'm nit-picking, this isn't entirely true. OCaml doesn't statically link C code, as you can see from: $ ldd /usr/bin/virt-builder linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffedf3e2000) libguestfs.so.0 => /lib64/libguestfs.so.0 (0x00007fbc8210c000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fbc81eee000) libtinfo.so.6 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.6 (0x00007fbc81cc2000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00007fbc81a8c000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib64/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fbc81866000) libxml2.so.2 => /lib64/libxml2.so.2 (0x00007fbc814fd000) libyajl.so.2 => /lib64/libyajl.so.2 (0x00007fbc812f3000) libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007fbc80fe2000) libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fbc80dde000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fbc80bc7000) [... continued for many more lines ...] And even after that there are now options for dynamically linking OCaml code, it's just that they're not very widely used upstream. Since OCaml pays attention to safety this isn't so much of a problem as with C. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
