Both of your reasons are valid. But I suspect the overwhelming reason is, that they
are _HUGE_. Most of us pay for our connections out of our own pockets, or at least
want to use our phone, instead of many hours uploading a binary. As it is, it takes
the better part of a hour to build a release, for each of the, libc5, libc6, and
rpm's. This is not even "pensionable" time. Anyway, I'm surprized I've managed to type
this much on this teeny weenie keybord of the wireless. Hope I don't blow my charater
limit sending this.....
-----Original Message-----
From: ceh01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:15:53 -0400
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't find static libs?
I seem unable to find the "static" version of LessTif libs.
You mention them on page (http://www.lesstif.org/download.html).
But there is no hot-link. Nor are they at:
ftp://ftp.hungry.com/pub/hungry/lesstif/bindist/
Static modules are helpful when building software for others who may not
have the shared object
libs on their systems, but who are running our program. 'Just simpler for
our users.
I assume you recommend we build the static libs ourselves from your source,
if needed.
Just curious, are there specific reasons for not distributing the .a files?
(i.e. you perceive few people want/need them?,
or, there are system specific dependencies?)
Thanks much,
Carl
