[BRLTTY] Compiling a statically linked binary

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, Dave Mielke wrote:

> [quoted lines by S. Massy on 2014/10/31 at 11:29 -0400]
> 
> >It might still be appropriate to flash a warning message on the display
> >and/or in the logs when no bindings are available.
> 
> That's a good idea - thanks.
> 
> What are your thoughts regarding adding a bunch of code to support built-in key 
> tables versus a full installation on a USB stick?
> 
> One of the problems with built-in key tables is that one driver may require 
> more than one key table, i.e. a different key table for each model that the 
> driver supports. It'd probably become very error prone to have the user, rather 
> than the driver, decide which of them to use.

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.

It might be better to create a script to make it easy to install BRLTTY 
on any medium instead.


Nicolas