Re: -static packages

2010-09-21 Thread Michael Schwendt
exists. In package reviews, package submitters typically don't give any "compelling reason" for shipping the static libs. That's why many -static packages are missing. > Trying to get individual package maintainers to go against the policy > isn't a helpful way t

Re: -static packages

2010-09-21 Thread Robert Spanton
"audit" library that will force the application to exit if it attempts to load a shared library from outside the packaged directory. This approach is working for me -- and I *think* it's working for dlopen, but this is untested at this point (I'll fix it when it breaks...). No

Re: -static packages

2010-09-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:32:20PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones píše v Čt 16. 09. 2010 v 17:19 +0100: > > There are times when static linking is a useful. Robert clearly > > describes one in his original post. > Static libraries solve the "unprivileged user" problem only in a

Re: -static packages

2010-09-16 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Richard W.M. Jones píše v Čt 16. 09. 2010 v 17:19 +0100: > There are times when static linking is a useful. Robert clearly > describes one in his original post. Static libraries solve the "unprivileged user" problem only in a limited set of cases. As soon as any of the libraries needs additional

Re: -static packages

2010-09-16 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:19 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > There are times when static linking is a useful. Robert clearly > describes one in his original post. Only because we do not (yet) have a good per-user package manager to make installing the required dynamic libraries, or assembling a

Re: -static packages

2010-09-16 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 06:11:21PM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:06:20PM +0100, Robert Spanton wrote: > > I've recently had to link a fair amount of my work statically so that > > it'll run on a cluster of RHEL machines. Unfortunately, I am just a > > user of these machi

Re: -static packages

2010-09-15 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:06:20PM +0100, Robert Spanton wrote: > > So, would be acceptable to register requests for -static package > variants as tickets on bugzilla? Or is there a better way to try to > encourage people to generate these packages? Providing static libraries for user needs like

Re: -static packages

2010-09-15 Thread Matt McCutchen
s on bugzilla? Or is there a better way to try to > encourage people to generate these packages? I think the answer is "no": Fedora wishes to discourage static linking. You can continue to build your own -static packages, or you can install the libraries you need manually in your home dir

Re: -static packages

2010-09-15 Thread Tom Lane
"Bryn M. Reeves" writes: > On 09/15/2010 05:06 PM, Robert Spanton wrote: >> So, would be acceptable to register requests for -static package >> variants as tickets on bugzilla? Or is there a better way to try to >> encourage people to generate these packages? > You might find the Fedora packagin

Re: -static packages

2010-09-15 Thread Bryn M. Reeves
On 09/15/2010 05:06 PM, Robert Spanton wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently had to link a fair amount of my work statically so that > it'll run on a cluster of RHEL machines. Unfortunately, I am just a > user of these machines, and so I don't have the power to get them to run > Fedora or even to get th

Re: -static packages

2010-09-15 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:06:20PM +0100, Robert Spanton wrote: > I've recently had to link a fair amount of my work statically so that > it'll run on a cluster of RHEL machines. Unfortunately, I am just a > user of these machines, and so I don't have the power to get them to run > Fedora or even

-static packages

2010-09-15 Thread Robert Spanton
Hi, I've recently had to link a fair amount of my work statically so that it'll run on a cluster of RHEL machines. Unfortunately, I am just a user of these machines, and so I don't have the power to get them to run Fedora or even to get the admins to install RHEL packages in a timely manner. Bui

Re: -static packages not multilib'd?

2010-02-15 Thread Bill Nottingham
'Neither'? It's not coded to add -static packages. Whether or not that's a feature can be argued. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel

-static packages not multilib'd?

2010-02-12 Thread Jussi Lehtola
Hi, I was recently asked why there isn't an fftw-static.i386 on EPEL x86_64, even though both fftw and fftw-devel are available in both 32- and 64-bits. Is this a bug in the repo scripts, or an intentional feature..? -- Jussi Lehtola Fedora Project Contributor jussileht...@fedoraproject.org --