[sldev] Re: shared objects output during standalone build

[Paul TBBle Hampson]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:33:08PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 10:47 +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:
> >> I'm afraid that doesn't make any sense.  Using shared objects
> >> increases viewer startup time and makes packaging more of a pain.

>> I'm aware (theoretically aware, I've never noticed it myself) it
>> increases viewer startup time, but I'm not sure why people keep saying
>> this makes packaging the viewer more of a pain...

> Because it requires you to start up the client with a wrapper script,
> something I'd like to avoid.

I don't see that it does. We had this conversation already, in fact.
Even Fedora provides a non-wrapper-script solution.

True, it needs a wrapper script to run it directly out of the build-path
without an installer around it, but I don't see that as a particularly
interesting use-case myself.

Maybe the opensource check in create_cond_module should be a standalone
check? That way compile-run cyclers who don't want to set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH can build statically to squeeze every last cycle out of
the CPU, since that implies to me using the non-standalone version of
the other libraries too...

Either way, I've not seen anything here that convinces me that private
shared libraries aren't a good idea for my Debian package builds, so
I'll still go ahead and futz with that when I have a little more time.

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