On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:25:06AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Victor Duchovni:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:31:27PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> >
> > > There is plenty of room for polish, but none of this rocket science,
> > > just some tedious wacking of the library and program Makefile after
> > > making some naming and style choices.
>
> I do not want to sound ungrateful but it is indeed no rocket science
> to permanently remove all support for static linking for LINUX (or
> any platform), meaning the permanent removal of support for older
> versions of LINUX (or any platform).
There is no permanent removal, all the macros are trivially set
to values that product static libraries. The "demo" Makefiles
can build *either* shared or static binaries.
> I would like to maintain my principle that people shall not be
> forced to run the Latest OS version and the Latest Postfix version
> only.
>
> In other words, we will still have to ship multiple Makfiles.
No, we can run "makedefs shared" to produce a shared-library build
and "makedefs static" to product a static build.
--
Viktor.
