On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:21:51PM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> I can't help it, this one struck me as quite funny, after all the
> shared library discussions we've had on this list.
>
> "A Stanford researcher, Philip Guo, has developed a tool called CDE to
> automatically package up a Linux program and all its dependencies
> (including system-level libraries, fonts, etc!) so that it can be run
> out of the box on another Linux machine without a lot of complicated
> work setting up libraries and program versions or dealing with
> dependency version hell. "
>
> OK, so this is better than static linking how? Oh yeah you get the
> fonts. And all the incompatible programs across distros.
>
> So they've made the whole shared library mess so incredibly complex
> that you now have to bundle a program's shared libraries with the
> program!
>
> Un-beeeeee-lievable.
So "un-beeeeee-lievable" that no one is able today to statically link
a program depending on X11. Hence, this "solution" needed to solve a
problem created (I tried to statically link an app depending
"only" on X11 and motif. Hell !...[and failure]).
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