Re: Always static link in OpenLDAP 2.1?

[bj@zuto.de (Rainer Clasen)]

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> At 11:51 PM 2002-11-12, Rainer Clasen wrote:
> >Just out of curiosity: Is there a special reason to not link them
> >dynamically?
> 
> Yes.  Because library version numbers are incremented at most
> once per release (in release branches, never in HEAD), those
> who want to test release engineering code installed in a separate
> directories from their production code can easily run into dynamic
> library versioning problems that could invalid their testing or
> worse.  Linking statically ensures those who test before putting
> code into production are testing the code they think they are
> testing.

ahh, I see. Thanks.


Rainer

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