On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:58:10 +0200, "Truls A. Tangstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:43:25AM -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote: > > "Truls A. Tangstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > My though (which might be naïve) is to compile statically linked > > > binaries of the libraries/programs we directly depend on and then > > > provide them together with our software, modifying > > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH/PYTHONPATH on startup. Is it possible to create a > > > qt.so (with friends) that is statically linked against all its > > > dependencies, or is it a nightmare of manual labour? > > This is a bad approach, IMHO. It wastes a lot of resources since > > the system won't be able to share already loaded libraries. Besides > > that, the size of your programs will also get very big, making it > > harder to download... > Yes, I know the tradeoffs, but the most important thing is having an > easy install that works for all systems. Does "all systems" include non-x86 hardware, too? That's an awful lot of binaries to maintain! I'd stick with letting the existing package managers do the hard work. Regards, Dan -- Dan Sommers <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
