Re: get rid static libraries or fix them

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:48 -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 13:37 -0500, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> 
> > FYI, I've sucessfully built static binaries that link against static
> > gtk+, if modules must be opened via dlopen, that is another issue - 
> > you still get a statically linked program that searches for modules
> > and loads them with dlopen.
> 
> But there is no guarantee that every symbol that the module needs has
> been linked into your static app. A theme engine(say) could use
> basically any GTK+ symbol, a statically built app is only guaranteed to
> include the GTK+ symbols that it uses. 

Ah yes I completely overlooked this.

there is a program that I link glib statically and will continue 
to do so since the risk is little to none for that case...

Cheers,
             -Tristan