On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 15:16 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > I've thought about the "rpm hell" bit before. I notice that some > commercial apps (like Opera) seem to bundle everything required into a > single tarball and say "just install this". Do they achieve this by > statically linking in all the required libraries
The answer to your question is yes they do bundle all the libraries that are needed to support the application in one tarball. To be absolutely technically correct they are not typically 'statically linked' which has a specific technical meaning, they are typcially included as a dynamicly included library that is installed with the rest of the application. -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org developer Openoffice.org miniconf at LCA: Cool. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
