Trying to compile nedit-latest-sources-HEAD

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* Thomas Orgis wrote (2006-10-06 13:41):
>Sorry for deviating from the main issue, but the issue of linking nedit
>reminds me of a problem I encountered when changing the SourceMage
>GNU/Linux nedit spell to compile with openmotif instead of lesstif:
>Per default, openmotif doesn't installl static libraries (anymore), so
>we now have a sed line removing the -Wl,-Bstatic and -Wl,-Bdynamic so
>that just the "normal" dynamic linking is used for all of nedit.
>That indeed does make sense given that it will be used in the
>environment it was compiled in - static linking would just waste space
>there.

I think the reason for preferring static links is that they are
somewhat more reliable if you move the binary around. That's usually
not a problem on solid distributions, but I have to work on more than
one platform and appreciate any dependency which does not exist.


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