Re: Any imake guru (shared lib vs static lib) ?

[Mathieu Malaterre <mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Michael Banck<mbanck@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:16:11PM +0200, mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com wrote:
>>  I am in the process of packaging dicom3tools:
>>
>> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/dicom3tools/trunk/
>>
>>  The tools are extremely useful, but I do not know imake enough to
>>  switch from building static lib into shared libs. Has anyone done
>>  this in the past ?
>
> I suggest you try to convince upstream to do it.  That way (if they do
> it properly), you do not have to worry about ABI/API changes in their
> libraries.

I'll try again.

> Are dicom3tools libraries' used by a lot of other packages?

Not that I know of.
But there are ~128 executables, I am pretty sure I'll gain some space
using shared lib.

Thanks,
-- 
Mathieu