- From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 17:42:00 +0000 (GMT)
- To: Irene VATTON <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- cc: Volker Kuhlmann <volker@elec.canterbury.ac.nz>, Amaya Mailing List <www-amaya@w3.org>
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Irene VATTON wrote: > > 4) Why do numerous libraries (jpeg, z, ...) have to be statically > > linked? GNU autoconf is a marvellous tool! (At 110M compiling it broke - > > It's for platforms that have no pre-installed libraries or in the case where > available libraries are incompatible. With Perl you can chose what gets linked dynamically when built. Perl does not use autoconf to create configure. I think it uses metaconf. Ruby uses autoconf, and it gives you the choice of static and dynamic linking also. <FYI but OT admittedly: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ main site http://www.rubycentral.com/ FAQ, etc http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/index.html Book, etc for those who want to know about Ruby. /> > You can configure and build with your own libraries. > Hugh hgs@dmu.ac.uk
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