Subj : Re: Building
To   : Paul Hayton
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Sat Sep 24 2022 11:38 pm

>> AI> With DYNLIBS=0 the binaries are statically linked. You can run these
>> AI> binaries on another system without rebuilding. For example you can co

>This setting confused me, but I went with 0 and I think that was the way to go
> - I hope :)

Yes, this confused me at first but static linking works too.

> After installing a few more dependencies I ran the script and it all built,
> then ran sudo make -j install and it all seemed to work, so thats' great. I
> hope from now on I can just run those two steps from time to time and all
> will build and install...

Yes, I think that is the case but this new way of doing things is still new to me.

> much nicer system :)

I actually prefer dynamic linking, everything here is dynamically linked except the husky stuff.

Static linking does have the advantage that I can simply copy hpt/htick/pktinfo to another machine and they work without needing to buld the libs in
/usr/local/lib64.

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