On 2006-09-03 00:36:29 -0700, matt massie wrote:
> i wanted to comment on the who "srclib" library business. there are two
> separate issues that need to be addressed.
>
> first.
>
> i feel it is critically important that gmond be statically linked
> against all support libraries. there are sysadmins our there managing
> 1000s of ganglia machines and having a single statically linked binary
> makes it easy for them. imagine needing to do a yum update on thousands
> of hosts in order to make sure all rpm dependencies are met on upgrade.
> ouch. imagine using an os without a package manager and managing
> library dependencies. ooouch.
it is not this worse. people do that all the time. and where is the
problem of installing 3 packages instead of 1? most likely they have
installed a few other packages already anyway.
> second.
>
> i don't really care one way or another how the source for the support
> libraries gets on the _compile_ host since we will statically link
> against those libraries anyway. having them in the "srclib" directory
> gives us more control and makes it easier for people to download and
> compile. although it also makes packaging and maintenance for us a lot
> harder.
statically linking stuff is a maintenance nightmare.
anyway it should be optionally possible to dynamically link.
The idea is to improve the package coverage of ganglia, so you dont have
the need of pushing around statically compiled versions.
And nothing stops packages from providing the statically linked binary.
Statically linked against the libraries shipped with the distro of
course.
darix
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