Hello, sorry for replying in the wrong thread, but I don't find an appropriate message to reply to in the original one.
On 08/10/15 09:10, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > Hiding symbols is the only advantage that I'm aware of, and as noted > in the other thread there do exist other solutions. Indeed, and those are way easier than maintaining the single file build. > The only thing is > that we can't be absolutely certain these tools will work until > someone who needs static builds actually tries it -- the tools > definitely exist on regular linux, but IIUC the people who need static > builds are generally on really weird architectures that we can't test > ourselves. Or for all I know the weird architectures have finally > added shared linking and no-one uses static builds anymore. I think we > need to just try dropping it and see. I don't really see how building from a single source file or multiple source files affects the linking of a static library. Can you be more precise about what the problems are? The only thing that I may think of is instructing distutils to do the right thing, but that should not be a stopper. Cheers, Daniele _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org https://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
