Re: Static binaries :how to create
The main trouble is you have to create an app from source to statically link it. But
yes, you're right. I'd think twice about using lots of static apps though. Not only
does it increase your disk space usage it also increases your memory usage. I suspect
your main problem is that you have apps installed which are non-debian and therefore
don't have dependencies on these old libraries. If you did have packages and they
depended on old libraries then the old libraries would've been kept around. I myself
had an app which was linked against libc4. It wasn't a package and although the
library hadn't been deinstalled automatically I made the mistake of manually removing
it since I couldn't remember why I needed it. Of course a week or two later I
discovered why...
It would be great if there were an easy (graphical?!) way to generate 'stub' packages
for apps which haven't been debianized so we could keep all of our shared libraries
straight.
John Leget wrote:
> hello all,
>
> Ive come accross a couple of static binaries in my search for windoze
> replacements, and since i download the occasional source to apps not in
> deb's i was wondering how one makes these.
>
> Now from what i understand they do not depend on lib's on my system as
> they are compiled in - thus making them much bigger - is this right.
>
> Anyway i have some favorite apps and thought if i can make static
> version myself then i dont have to worry about them breaking when i
> upgrade in future, which most invariably do
> and not all of these are kept up to date with newer libs.
>
> <sigh> i had hoped that with linux id escape that loathsome M$ style dll
> hell goes not.
>
> With my latest upgrade ( running potato ) i broke star office, and now
> question wheter if i buy a commercial app or game im going to eventually
> have to chuck it, or fork out for a upgrade , Since no doubt newer apps
> will require newer lib's etc <sighh>
>
> Im somewhat dissapointed to find im still stuck with that sort of mess
> :( Id hoped to escape it with linux. Of course its ussually not a
> problem with free source but ive found unless those are kept up to date
> eventually they just break as well.
>
> ( Yes i know update them yourself etc, id like to learn c++ but linux
> seems to be mostly c, so ive settled on learning the bash shell...
> first, then i'll aim higher :) )
>
> Anyway linux now is my preffered OS though ive still got some windoze
> apps i have not found replacements for. ie Quicken, diary, several
> games .
> And yes i know about wine ( great effort :) ) ( windoze does it better
> )- i just want to lose windows completely.
>
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