Changeset aad85a6 for chapter06/introduction.xml

Timestamp:

04/20/2015 11:28:26 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

Krejzi <krejzi@…>

Branches:

7.8-systemd, 7.9-systemd

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a65f8ca2

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9d438f4

Message:

Imported changes from the main book.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/systemd@10894 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/introduction.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/introduction.xml

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   test suite data for all applicable packages in Chapter 6.</para></note>
 
+  <sect2>
+    <title>About libraries</title>
+
+    <para>In general, the LFS editors discourage building and installing static
+    libraries.  The original purpose for most static libraries has been made
+    obsolete in a modern Linux system.  In addition linking a static library
+    into a program can be detrimental.  If an update to the library is needed
+    to remove a security problem, all programs that use the static library will
+    need to be relinked to the new library.  Since the use of static libraries
+    is not always obvious, deciding which programs (and the procedures needed to
+    do the linking) may not even be known.</para>
+
+    <para>In the prcedures in Chapter 6, we remove or disable installation of
+    most static libraries.  In a few cases, especially glibc and gcc, the use
+    of static libraries remains essential to the general package building
+    process.  Usually this is done by passing a
+    <option>--disable-static</option> option to <command>configure</command>.
+    In other cases, alternate means are needed.</para>
+
+    <para>For a more complete discussion of libraries, see the discussion
+    <ulink url="&blfs-root;/view/&short-version;/introduction/libraries.html">
+    Libraries: Static or shared?</ulink> in the BLFS book.</para>
+
+  </sect2>
+
 </sect1>