From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <102330783065a9f2532aaf0004dba714@plug.quanstro.net> References: <102330783065a9f2532aaf0004dba714@plug.quanstro.net> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 00:31:54 -0700 Message-ID: From: Don Bailey To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] another type of static linking: send all the shared libraries with the program! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7bdb121c-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 So now bin/ls is going to weigh 200 megabytes on SomeDistro thanks to a packaging of localities, terminal colours, etc? Sounds great. On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:26 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> So they've made the whole shared library mess so incredibly complex >> that you now have to bundle a program's shared libraries with the >> program! >> >> Un-beeeeee-lievable. >> >> The standard rule is, when you're in a hole, stop digging; that seems >> not to apply in software nowadays. > > why does this sound like post-compile autoconf/autotools? > > - erik > >