On 2004-06-25 Ollie Cook <ollie@???> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 08:31:14AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2004-06-24 Nico Erfurth <masta@???> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > P.S.: Colin, could you finally drop the libpcre dependency in
> > > gentoos exim-package?
> > I assume that is a vote for linking exim statically instead
> > dynamically against libpcre. - Why would you want that?
> Exim ships with a version of libprce already in the tarball which it
> uses during the build process, so it doesn't need the library
> installed previously. I ~think~ that's what Nico is getting at.
The problem with this is:
- it is a waste of resources, especially memory (the dynamically linked
library is shared between multiple exim instances)
- It makes security updates a PITA. If there ever is a security
problem in pcre you'll need to issue updates for every package
statically linking against it, instead of just for the library
package. There wa a problem in zlib about a year ago iirc that
nicely illustated this.
cu andreas
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