Re:Dynamic linking
by dan-robertson on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:57PM
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If you’re a Linux distribution and you have the source code to the software you distribute then the responsiveness of the maintainers doesn’t matter so much: any change to a library which is compatible with the previous version (in the sense that you could dynamically link to the new version instead of the old version) is going to be compatible under static linking too.
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Re:Dynamic linking
by danShumway on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:18PM
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That's a really good point that I hadn't considered. All of the software I'm pulling from Pacman is being compiled from source, the authors aren't uploading binaries.
So the difference in effort between changing the static library and changing the dynamic library is... maybe not nothing, but not nearly as high as I was assuming.