Frederic I have been working with people bringing up instrument drivers, and have recommended adopting static linking because of the ease of installation and robustness that we can see with Graeme's software. Maybe you could explain in simple words I can understand why static linking is a bad thing ? Edmund > > And I'm convinced shipping static tarball for Linux is just a > band-aid. (I won't comment for other OS). > -- > Frederic Crozat > >