[BRLTTY] Compiling a statically linked binary
Dave Mielke
dave at mielke.cc
Fri Oct 31 13:18:52 EDT 2014
[quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2014/10/31 at 13:04 -0400]
>I think it is probably time to give up on the idea of a statically
>linked binary. So many things are split into separate files for good
>reasons: drivers, config files, braille tables, key bindings, help
>screens, etc. So the idea of an autonomous single binary doesn't work
>well anymore.
Yes, although the idea of the executable itself being statically linked is, I
think, still valid as it makes the executable independent from whatever shared
libraries may or may not be on the target system.
>It might be better to create a script to make it easy to install BRLTTY
>on any medium instead.
Yes. Amongst other things, it should also configure with
--enable-relocatable-install so that the whole hierarchy is self-contained.
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