On Friday 04 October 2002 04:14 pm, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:

Hi Ralf,

> But the static linking
> in OpenPKG affects only libraries _WITHIN_ OpenPKG, i.e. packages like
> zlib or libxml provide only static libs. But it does not mean that we
> statically link executables as a whole. They are still build against the
> dynamic system libraries, of course.

Ok, I see now.
(I also reread FAQ 13 http://www.openpkg.org/faq.html)

Thanks for clarification.

BTW: Do you consider libgdbm to be a system library or do you intend to 
provide a ligdbm package in the future?

> > Is Linux different from other platforms in this respect?
>
> No, although I do not know exactly the point you wanted to address,
> Linux is not different when it comes to shared libraries.

Well, there are some issues with regards to libresolv and other things in 
glibc with regards to static linking.

Yours,
--martin
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