Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Nov 2009 23:05 UTC
As we all know, Mac OS X has support for what is called 'fat binaries'. These are binaries that can carry code for for instance multiple architectures - in the case of the Mac, PowerPC and x86. Ryan Gordon was working on an implementation of fat binaries for Linux - but due to the conduct of the Linux maintainers, Gordon has halted the effort.
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2006-07-25
Obviously you have never tried to make a completely static and non-trivial binary. Some libraries (e.g. freetype I think) explicitly do not support static linking. Static linking with the libstdc++ is also a nightmare.
Links:
http://www.baus.net/statically-linking-libstdc++
http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/06/static-libstdc/
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-08/msg00288.html
and so on...