On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 06:07:54PM +0000, corvid wrote:
In September 2011, I wrote:
Do we still have a reason for telling people to stick with static linkage when building fltk?
I was thinking about what our installation instructions should look like these days, and how everyone has a decent chance of having a fltk-1.3 package available and it may not be best to tell them to run off and compile fltk unless fltk-config --version doesn't tell them any good news and they can't get a pkg... and this led me to wonder about the necessity/appropriateness of static linking.
All that I found in the archive was me wondering about it last year and no one replying to me. Well, except this now. I'm replying to me, if that counts.
I would leave the decision to link statically or not to the package maintainers of the various distros. They will do anyway what they consider best.