On Monday 07 February 2005 07:41 pm, "Captain FantastiK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I don't have a Good experience about USE-Flags but I wanted to know if > its a good idea to compile my packages with static support. Does it > optimize ?
This just makes your programs statically linked. This means the won't use shared libraries; if you have the binary and are on the right system, they will run. [Can be good for stuff you want to put in an initrd, or some embedded system.] However, at the system level this will cause a lot of duplication both on disk and in-memory, increasing the size and memory requirements of a full system. [The linker can perform some optimizations when staticly linking that it cannot when doing dynamic linking, but they are largely inconsequential and somewhat offset by prelinking.] -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
