Include glib into mc distribution?

Frédéric L. W. Meunier lists at pervalidus.net
Tue Feb 19 19:47:33 UTC 2002


Alexander Varakin wrote:

> I think it would be great if glib will be included as part of
> mc, and will be statically linked with glib.  

You can always compile GLib with --disable-shared or link
Midnight Commander with the static version. For some unknown
reason Slackware does that. Maybe because it doesn't support
dependencies.

> That will greatly simplify building and deployment of mc. 

How ?

> What do you think about that?

I don't like it. Other developers include copies of Readline
and other libraries, which I also consider a bad idea.

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