Re: Packaging of static libraries
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 05:17:54PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Apr 13, Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> > We in Debian are in a good position to defend our users from the
> > fallout from this problem. We could change our default compiler
> > options to favour safety, and provide more traditional semantics.
> Which would not solve any problem in this case, because then the HPC
> users will just not use Debian or use custom optimized builds.
If users have such specialized needs, I think it is not only reasonable that
they build their own versions of their libraries; I expect them to prefer that.
So we should make that as easy as possible. I can imagine that Gentoo also
seems attractive to them, and it may be a good (or even better) solution. But
as Debian, I think the best we can do to help them is to make it easy to build
our packages from source with custom build flags. I'm guessing that we're
probably talking less than 100 people in the world, maybe less than 10, that
need this. It makes no sense to put a package in the archive just for them.
And changing the default compiler settings to fit their needs makes even less
sense.
Thanks,
Bas
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