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>EVER. They are all included with the distribution of your software and
>you build on it. Finally - you statically link everything. This way
>it's completely stand-alone.
Just a random data point: Statically linking everything is
highly discouraged and really won't buy you much nowadays for complex
applications. For simple stuff, yeah, works great. Even though you may
succeed in statically linked everything obvious (non-trivial btw), glibc
(and even gtk+) goes out and loads a bunch of shared libraries/objects
at run-time. Plus, there are all sorts of other nasty gotchas.
Here's are some nice summaries/discussions of why statically linking
is discouraged nowadays:
http://people.redhat.com/~drepper/no_static_linking.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.programmer/browse_frm/thread/89eda70791f52292
(posted recently to comp.os.linux.development.apps)
-Ales
PS. I have never really gotten a complex (we are talking 35+ libraries)
program statically linked to _completely work_ to my satisfaction.
