Re: [Ganglia-developers] Dynamic linking for packaging

2005-03-03 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 09:05:34AM +, Stu Teasdale wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm currently working on ganglia 3.0.0 packages for Debian and have a > small query. Debian general policy states that external libraries should > be dynamically linked to executables, and the dependency system ensures

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Dynamic linking for packaging cont.

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Massie
and i forgot to add one more thing about using ./srclib. if you take a look at ./lib/apr_net.[c,h], you'll see that i need direct access to apr code in order to operate directly on apr network structures in order to support multicast (since apr doesn't support multicast). i couldn't do think

Re: [Ganglia-developers] Dynamic linking for packaging

2005-03-03 Thread Matt Massie
stu- the reason that i statically link in apr/confuse/expat is manifold. there are people who are running ganglia on 2000 node clusters and tracking dependencies can be a nightmare at that scale. having a single statically-linked executable and a config file to sync up is simple. static lin

[Ganglia-developers] Dynamic linking for packaging

2005-03-03 Thread Stu Teasdale
Hi all, I'm currently working on ganglia 3.0.0 packages for Debian and have a small query. Debian general policy states that external libraries should be dynamically linked to executables, and the dependency system ensures that this isn't a major issue for users, but I notice that ganglia 3 se