[arch-general] Build pacman statically

[Leonid Isaev]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 11:35:10 -0500
Sander Jansen <s.jansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 10:31:06 -0400
> > Jack Silver <jacksilver045 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> To exchange information I want to let know this list that I have filled a
> >> feature request form to ask for a statically builded pacman.
> >>
> >> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30993
> >>
> >> Comments welcome in the bug manager.
> >>
> >> جاك الفضة
> >
> > Well, bugtracker is not a place for comments, it's for solutions.
> >
> > Anyway... statically compiling things is not a way of avoiding trouble, at
> > least not in a self-sustained fashion. So, if you propose to have pacman in
> > [core] statically compiled against all needed libraries, I would be against
> > that as the package will be an unmaintainable mess.
> 
> Why would it be a unmaintainable mess?

Because it is _statically_ compiled so the whole binary has to be rebuilt even
after a minor update of one of the libraries. This is assuming that you can
actually make such binary with gcc...

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