On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
finer. (-dyn and static in separate packages, so that the static one alone
gets the dependency. Lazarus then only depends on the dyn packages).
That would be a regular nightmare, because there are many packages that depend
on fcl-db, and this would split all these packages in 2 variants.
There is a good reason that apache, php, ODBC and many other large programs/
libraries introduced dynamically loadable packages. It saves you from
having to recompile everything for your particular system, and thus makes
maintenance and installation simpler.
So if anything, IMHO we should make all packages that link in external C libs
"dynamically loaded".
This only shifts the problem from having to say "install the static version
of the C lib" to having to say "install the relevant FPC/lazarus db package".
I don't understand this remark ? What static version of the C lib ?
The -dev packages install a symlink (.so) and header files, not a static lib.
It's been years since I've seen a static lib installed, and as a rule,
I install lots of -dev packages.
As for additional work: we need to do the work anyway.
If a lib changes versions, we need to adapt our units anyway, dynamic or not.
Michael.
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