Ian Wienand, le Mon 14 May 2007 13:58:38 +1000, a écrit : > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:26:53AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > The upstream build doesn't actually create a static library, I'm > > > pretty sure by design to avoid version skew, etc. > > > > Mm, what version skew problem could happen? > > Where the library changes due to kernel interfaces, etc. I asked > upstream and the reply was > > "I would prefer not. The library was always intended to be replaced > under a program. Given the kernel interface has been fairly stable, > but there can be always new features like cpuset support."
Then one just needs to relink the application. In the case I mentioned (people that link statically for getting best performance), it is very far from a problem (people would do recompiles every day actually; some applications even need a recompile whenever data change). Samuel
