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From: David Moore <dmoore@ucsd.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 1997 21:39:57 -0800
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Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> writes:

> Steven L Baur writes:
>  > I'm relaxing the static!, static!, static! rule somewhat.  Any
>  > standard system library may be dynamically linked.  Any library which
>  > might not be installed on a system MUST be statically linked.  Let me
>  > repeat that.  ANY library which might not be installed on a system
>  > MUST be statically linked.
> 
> Maybe it's my memory that's bad, but it seems to me every time
> we've tried this, there have been blowups reported.  We're
> shooting for turnkey operation with the binaries, so why risk
> it?  I can still hear Jamie laughing.

Or even if we don't have obvious blowups, we have more variables to deal
with when bug reports come in.  "Oh, were you using version Z.67 of
shared library Q?"

Let's make sure that core dumps in the binary distributions are mostly
comparable.  Static linking helps along this path.

