too much dynamic loading?

[Austin English]

On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 4:13 PM, James McKenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Marcus Meissner wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 01:03:09PM -0400, Steven Edwards wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Marcus Meissner <marcus at jet.franken.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> As libjpeg and libpng bumped their major versions in the last months
>>>> I had to adjust some of my library requires in my wine.spec file.
>>>>
>>>> This caused me thinking if it is really necessary to dynamically
>>>> load nearly every library.
>>>>
>>>> Can we make some of those direct linking? libjpeg and libpng
>>>> and some other lowlevel libraries might be useful.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1 for static linking them.
>>>
>>
>> No static linking either, its the nightmare of security maintainers ;)
>>
>>
>> But which distro doesnt have libjpeg or libpng? or libX11.so, libXext.so.,
>> libncurses.so...
>>
>
> How about MacOSX or Solaris?  They don't come with these.

OSX 10.5+ comes with X11 installed. OpenSolaris has X11 and friends as
well, though Solaris may not.

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-Austin