* Andrei Mircea (mircea.andrei@wanadoo.fr) [20000627 01:59]:

Given the huge RAM memory available in present computers, I wonder if it would not be more reasonable to go back to the old system of statically linked programs. Dynamic linking sure is a bright idea, but...what do other people on this list think ?

Thats a very bad idea, for a number of reasons. - The needed disk space would explode. To see the difference, just compile your favourite app with -static added to the compiler options. - Updating the library would force recompiling/updating *all* applications. - Not every machine has huge amounts of RAM. There are others but this should suffice. The reason for the problems with shared libraries is, that most developers aren't cautious enough. What you need for such work is a defined environment for building binary packages. That's why our automatic package building system uses a chroot environment in which all necessary packages for a given distribution are installed. That way you get a defined set of tools and libraries that match the distribution for which a package is built. Philipp -- Philipp Thomas Development, SuSE GmbH, Schanzaecker Str. 10, D-90443 Nuremberg, Germany #define NINODE 50 /* number of in core inodes */ #define NPROC 30 /* max number of processes */ -- Version 7 UNIX for PDP 11, /usr/include/sys/param.h --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-help@suse.com