* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Couldn't we get rid of static libraries altogether, replacing static >> linking with ahead-of-time dynamic linking? > > Well, the normal usecase for static libraries and static linking is to > produce self-contained objects. If you can link a bunch of dynamic > objects into a self-contained object that behaves as a static-linked > object would, I'd say that yes, we could probably do away with static > libraries.
It's technically conceivable in the sense that the required data is present in DSOs. I don't know if it's been implemented. > I do think it is a bad idea, though. We don't provide libraries just > for ourselves, we also provide them for the user to use when building > his own stuff and they might have other usecases. So it's probably necessary to continue compiling static libraries without -fPIC. This precludes statically linked PIE executables, but that's probably okay. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqiefgio....@mid.deneb.enyo.de
