Re: shared libraries (again), this time: snmp

2006-03-28 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
roken. The option was added for some software outside of OpenPKG's scope and at the same time breaks the major design goal of OpenPKG instances being fully "stand-alone" as the binaries are linked against the shared libraries. Options are fine as long as they do not break anything within

shared libraries (again), this time: snmp

2006-03-19 Thread Steffen Weinreich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I was trying to get the HP Management Agent to run under Linux with OpenPkg but struggle with the static compiled snmpd. I have done the following patch a while ago for our local repository and would like to commit it in official cvs. Any objecti

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-15 Thread Matthias Kurz
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005, Martin Konold wrote: > Am Donnerstag 15 September 2005 08:01 schrieb Michael van Elst: > > Hi Michael, > > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:04:31AM +0200, Martin Konold wrote: > > > My personal main issue with the static linking is that in case I am > > > developing a package f

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-15 Thread Martin Konold
Am Donnerstag 15 September 2005 08:01 schrieb Michael van Elst: Hi Michael, > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:04:31AM +0200, Martin Konold wrote: > > My personal main issue with the static linking is that in case I am > > developing a package for OpenPKG I have a _very_ hard time to make > > _certain_

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-14 Thread Michael van Elst
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 03:04:31AM +0200, Martin Konold wrote: > My personal main issue with the static linking is that in case I am > developing > a package for OpenPKG I have a _very_ hard time to make _certain_ that the > correct libraries get picked up during compile time. With dynamic li

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-14 Thread Martin Konold
Am Dienstag 13 September 2005 12:28 schrieb Ralf S. Engelschall: > These are mainly the two major issues AFAIK which trigger the requests > for shared libraries. My personal main issue with the static linking is that in case I am developing a package for OpenPKG I have a _very_ hard t

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-13 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005, Birger Krägelin wrote: >> So, the main argument against shared libraries is the support >> of multiple instances, currently. > >What's the argument against static linking? >Memory shouldn't be a problem anymore... I think that there are so

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-13 Thread Matthias Kurz
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > On Tue, Sep 13, 2005, Birger Krägelin wrote: > > > > So, the main argument against shared libraries is the support > > > of multiple instances, currently. > > > > What's the argument against static l

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-13 Thread Michael van Elst
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:18:02AM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > of our packages ;-) I really like to see this shared library support, > but currently I cannot imagine how we can achieve this in a MINIMUM > INTRUSIVE way... Any particular suggestions and ideas on this topic? Vielleicht ist

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-13 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005, Birger Krägelin wrote: > > So, the main argument against shared libraries is the support > > of multiple instances, currently. > > What's the argument against static linking? > Memory shouldn't be a problem anymore... Yes, neither HD nor RAM

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-13 Thread Tres Seaver
Birger Krägelin wrote: > What's the argument against static linking? > Memory shouldn't be a problem anymore... Security updates are harder with static linking, as one must rebuild all packages using the library, rather than just the library itself. Tres. -- ===

RE: Shared Libraries

2005-09-13 Thread Birger Krägelin
> So, the main argument against shared libraries is the support > of multiple instances, currently. What's the argument against static linking? Memory shouldn't be a problem anymore... Birger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], Network Operations C

Re: Shared Libraries

2005-09-13 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote: > So, the main argument against shared libraries is the support of > multiple instances, currently. Yes, indeed. The support of multiple instances is of the few OpenPKG major design goals. Hence we cannot break it easily just to support a new f

Shared Libraries

2005-09-13 Thread Matthias Kurz
Hi. So, the main argument against shared libraries is the support of multiple instances, currently. Can anybody tell me what platforms have this problem ? Solaris and any other platform that supports placing the "rpath" in the archives should have no problems in this regard

mysql, myodbc, and unixodbc -- shared libraries

2003-03-02 Thread Bill Campbell
g OpenOffice on Linux requires building unixodbc and myodbc with shared libraries. Am I wrong on this or is there some way programs like OpenOffice can use the static libraries? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO B

patch for python binary modules - was RE: scripting language extensions - shared libraries

2003-02-13 Thread Andrews, Martin
gt; Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 3:50 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: scripting language extensions - shared libraries > > > It took a while to get the option where I wanted it - but now > python will > use openpkg static l

RE: scripting language extensions - shared libraries

2003-02-08 Thread Andrews, Martin
red -mimpure-text;g" Makefile %{l_make} %{l_mflags -O} %install > -Original Message- > From: Andrews, Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 10:07 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: scripting language exten