Feature Requests item #864360, was opened at 2003-12-22 05:49
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Category: core
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>Status: Closed
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: S�bastien Fricker (friseb123)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Distribution: Static Generation of Gaim
Initial Comment:
It is a general problem if a user want to install Gaim:
if the package is not generated for a specific distribution,
the user needs to compile gaim from the source code.
This can be difficult (if some libraries are missing) or
impossible (conflict with old version of libraries).
A good solution would be to have a distribution which
include the gaim executable generated statically.
This will take more memory but will work on every Linux
distributions.
If you need some support to do it, let me know.
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Comment By: Luke Schierer (lschiere)
Date: 2007-04-12 12:16
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As we are closing this tracker, please submit any feature request that is
still valid to http://developer.pidgin.im. Thanks.
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Comment By: S�bastien Fricker (friseb123)
Date: 2003-12-24 04:05
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Yes you can find some of them:
- partimage: the most reason to use the static version of
it, is that the rescue floppy will be smaller. It is not
necessary to put all libraries on it (5Mb aproximatically).
The static executable is about 600kb.
- opera: opera is distributed in a static and dinamic
version. The static package is 30% bigger that the dinamic
one. But require much more RAM at the execution (QT is
statically linked).
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Comment By: Mark Doliner (thekingant)
Date: 2003-12-24 02:37
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Are there other programs that distribute statically compiled
binaries? I don't think I've ever seen any...
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Comment By: S�bastien Fricker (friseb123)
Date: 2003-12-24 02:05
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I'm not surevthat you will generate 50Mb: the size of a
static library is really lower than the size of all dynamic
library. I have reach this size with a GUI project when I'm
compiling statically with full debug information.
Any way, the focus of gaim is not the developper and most
people which are using gaim doen't know what a compiler is.
That's why a static distribution can be usefully
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Comment By: Mark Doliner (thekingant)
Date: 2003-12-23 23:50
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I disagree, I do not think that is a good solution at all. Someone
should look, because I'm curious, but I have a feeling a statically
linked Gaim would be at least 50 megs. Compiling Gaim really
isn't that hard. It would be pretty inconvenient for us to compile
all are libraries statically just so we can compile a statically linked
Gaim for a very small number of people. Supplying binaries for 5
or so distibutions is good enough for me.
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