Re: findutils on interix

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/29/2010 07:49 AM, Markus Duft wrote:
> On 10/29/2010 01:11 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 10/28/2010 04:59 PM, Markus Duft wrote:
> > > thinking of gnulib, i can see a lot of potential problems,
> > > starting fex, that gnulib modules are copied into the packages,
> > > rather than gnulib beeing an installed library that is linked
> > > against (is this true always?).
> >
> > It is true that gnulib is usually copied into packages.  However,
> > it is possible to put multiple gnulib modules into a single
> > statically linked library.  This is what gentoo does with its
> > ebuild; you can search recent archives for "libposix", too (which
> > is just a selection of gnulib modules improving the POSIX-ness of a
> > system).
>
> mhm, so at least ATM, it's most of the time static. would it be much
> of a problem to build things both shared and static? is it wanted
> for gnulib at all to install such scripts?

gnulib doesn't provide a stable ABI, so while it is _possible_ to make a 
shared library, it probably wouldn't really be useful.

Paolo