On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:06:20PM +0100, Robert Spanton wrote:
I've recently had to link a fair amount of my work statically so
that
it'll run on a cluster of RHEL machines. Unfortunately, I am just a
user of these machines, and so I don't have the power to get them to run
Fedora or even to get the admins to install RHEL packages in a timely
manner. Building statically also helps me to eliminate as many of the
inevitable fractional differences between cluster nodes as possible, to
achieve reproducible results from simulation runs.
However, only a few packages in Fedora provide -static variants. This
has meant that I've had to locally build these, which is obviously not
desirable from a maintenance perspective.
So, would be acceptable to register requests for -static package
variants as tickets on bugzilla? Or is there a better way to try to
encourage people to generate these packages?
Better yet is not to link statically.
http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/no_static_linking.html
Jakub