[Splashy-devel] Static vs dynamic linking

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 21:39:53 -0800
"Eric Moret" <eric.moret at gmail.com> wrote:

> I found out about splashy after looking real hard for a linux user space
> splash. You guys have hit a home run. This project rocks and I'd like to
> have it packaged in fedora-extra. Only problem is that most static libraries
> required by splashy are not available in Fedora. So I started opening fedora
> bugs for various missing static libraries. As it turns out the missing
> libraries were not absent by mistake and I now have to make the argument for
> adding those static libraries.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215537
> 
> Could you please help me (and the fedora maintainer) understand why splashy
> is built statically and/or if that program could use dynamic libraries
> instead?

Which libs are missing? We do not use anything special... Mostly libs
that use libtool, those have a static version almost automatically.

Maybe I should read the link;)

> Feel free to reply on the above bugzilla entry or on the mailing list.

We used to link statically, because we want to have it on initramfs and
that is the easiest way to make sure have everything.
The next release won't. So maybe your problems will go away
automatically.

grts Tim