Re: fltk linkage

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 06:07:54PM +0000, corvid wrote:
> 
> In September 2011, I wrote:
> > Do we still have a reason for telling people to stick with
> > static linkage when building fltk?
> 
> I was thinking about what our installation instructions should look like
> these days, and how everyone has a decent chance of having a fltk-1.3
> package available and it may not be best to tell them to run off and
> compile fltk unless fltk-config --version doesn't tell them any good news
> and they can't get a pkg...   and this led me to wonder about the
> necessity/appropriateness of static linking.
> 
> All that I found in the archive was me wondering about it last year and
> no one replying to me. Well, except this now. I'm replying to me, if that
> counts.

I would leave the decision to link statically or not to the package
maintainers of the various distros. They will do anyway what they
consider best.