On 10/29/2010 07:49 AM, Markus Duft wrote:
On 10/29/2010 01:11 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
On 10/28/2010 04:59 PM, Markus Duft wrote:
thinking of gnulib, i can see a lot of potential problems,
starting fex, that gnulib modules are copied into the packages,
rather than gnulib beeing an installed library that is linked
against (is this true always?).
It is true that gnulib is usually copied into packages. However,
it is possible to put multiple gnulib modules into a single
statically linked library. This is what gentoo does with its
ebuild; you can search recent archives for "libposix", too (which
is just a selection of gnulib modules improving the POSIX-ness of a
system).
mhm, so at least ATM, it's most of the time static. would it be much
of a problem to build things both shared and static? is it wanted
for gnulib at all to install such scripts?
gnulib doesn't provide a stable ABI, so while it is _possible_ to make a
shared library, it probably wouldn't really be useful.
Paolo
