Re: static linking RA libs

Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:

> > Stuff-in-CVS-can-compile is fine. It would be nice to have
> > must-link, too. But even with that, we are now requiring the client
> > to be linked against DB3. I don't think that's right.
>
> I can see how it's annoying (especially if the build is broken right
> now), but I don't see how it's not right, as long as we want ra_local
> to exist.

I don't understand why db3 has become some kind of boogey-monster.

Yeah, it's a complex dependency. Yeah, it's a big library. Yeah, now
the client, as well as the server, depends on it. So what? It's no
more fearsome or "annoying" than depending on APR! What's the big
deal?
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:22 2006