Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 82.192.250.149]
on October 23, 2008 02:29 PM
"Of course, to do this you sacrifice some disk space, because the statically linked executable includes a copy of the shared libraries that it needs"
It's not just disk space. You also waste RAM, because a shared library is loaded into memory only once, even if several programs use it. That is MUCH more important than the disk space.
In general, if a program has not been packaged for your distro, you need to rebuild it, as 80.6.6.10 wrote. If the standard configure/make/make install doesn't work, then ELF Stratifier probably wouldn't have worked either. But the standard procedure nearly always gives you a clue about what you have to do to get it to build.
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Not just disk space
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 82.192.250.149] on October 23, 2008 02:29 PMIt's not just disk space. You also waste RAM, because a shared library is loaded into memory only once, even if several programs use it. That is MUCH more important than the disk space.
In general, if a program has not been packaged for your distro, you need to rebuild it, as 80.6.6.10 wrote. If the standard configure/make/make install doesn't work, then ELF Stratifier probably wouldn't have worked either. But the standard procedure nearly always gives you a clue about what you have to do to get it to build.
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