From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L1EuG-0004qp-30 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FFC0E00F7; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5BB0E00F7 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A778B64430 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.937 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.937 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.662, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 9uRJVSFOjwc3 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D100264438 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L1Ety-0007ZX-QP for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:02 +0000 Received: from ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.99.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:02 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:45:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Please review: function epunt_la_files for eutils.eclass Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200811091704.10291.loki_val@gentoo.org> <200811121831.49814.loki_val@gentoo.org> <20081113221413.71edadab@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <200811150005.54423.loki_val@gentoo.org> <1226708812.12338.3.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 165de23f-14dd-4b98-bf55-dff392c6c8b2 X-Archives-Hash: d85480a645eda96aaac3f331a61612dd Mart Raudsepp posted 1226708812.12338.3.camel@localhost= , excerpted below, on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:26:52 +0200: > This is because during > static linking all functions that are not used can be discarded from th= e > final binary, while with shared libraries all the code has to remain, > because it isn't know what will be using that shared library That was a very useful explanation. Thanks! --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman