Re: static xemacs build problem

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:44 PM, rh <richard_hubbe11(a)lavabit.com&gt; wrote: If you find a critical bug in a library and your distro uses shared libraries, then you fix the one copy of the library and all applications that use the library are automatically fixed. If you use static libraries, then you have to track down every application that linked with that library and recompile them all. Distros much prefer the former to the latter, and so try to avoid static libraries when they can. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta