On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 02:59:57PM -0500, James Carlson wrote: > Nicolas Williams writes: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:45:40PM +0100, "C. Bergstr?m" wrote: > > > When it comes to building against a multilib based system there's other > > > more elegant ways to depend on specific versions than > > > > > > LIBSQLITE = $(ROOT)/usr/lib/libsqlite.o > > > > > > To really explain why this should be avoided is an entirely different > > > thread I won't bore anyone here with.. > > > > I don't agree. SQLite is great, stable and all that. But SMF is so > > critical to system boot that it simply must not be allowed to break > > under any circumstance, so SQLite (version 2 in this case) really must > > be statically linked into svc.configd. You want as few dependencies as > > possible here. > > We had this discussion back with PSARC 2002/117 and the elimination of > static libraries from Solaris. > > I don't believe we should bring them back. Dynamic libraries > (including libc itself) are a part of the system, no more or less > significant than genunix itself. The removal or destruction of them > is no more or less "risky" than damaging any of a hundred other parts > of the system that are crucial for normal operation. > > No more static libraries. It's not just a Big Rule; it's a good idea.
Nit: This is not a static library.
