[gdal-dev] any reason for a linked statically gdalinfo?

[Frank Warmerdam]

gdal_dev_reader wrote:
> 
> Frank,
> 
> in the apps/GNUmakefile i find:
> 
> gdalinfo$(EXE): gdalinfo.o $(DEP_LIBS)
> $(CXX) $(LNK_FLAGS) gdalinfo.o $(XTRAOBJ) $(GDAL_LIBS) $(LIBS) \
> -o gdalinfo$(EXE)
> 
> gdal_translate$(EXE): gdal_translate.o $(DEP_LIBS)
> $(CXX) $(LNK_FLAGS) gdal_translate.o $(XTRAOBJ) \
> $(CONFIG_LIBS) -o gdal_translate$(EXE)
> 
> is there any special reason for gdalinfo to be always linked
> statically? all other apps seem to be linked dinamically when
> possible.
> 
> i build libgdal.1.1.so as a shared library and dinamic link saves
> some disk space with no apparent (to me:)) loss:
> gdalinfo.static is 1139844 bytes
> gdalinfo.dinamic is 15896 bytes
> 
> cheers,
> alessandro

Alessandro,

There is no compelling reason for gdalinfo to be linked statically. I
do that just so that I can verify that static linking still worked as expected.

Best regards,

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