On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Felix [ISO-8859-1] Kühling wrote: >there were 2 reports from snapshot users on dri-users that DRI was >disabled with the new configuration stuff. In at least one case the >problem was that libexpat was not installed on the system. Could the >snapshot build be changed to link the drivers statically with libexpat? >In either case I'll add a note in the FAQ.
By all means allow the option to link statically to libraries if that is something considered useful, however please do not make this the default, as it: 1) Bloats code unnecessarily 2) Makes security updates a very complicated mess if expat needs to be updated to fix some security hole - you have to know every binary on the system that links statically to it. We had a wonderful time a year ago with updating zlib because so many software projects include the complete out of date zlib sources and link statically to their own copy. Bad juju. -- Mike A. Harris ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
