Re: [Condor-users] [Condor-devel] Dynamic and static linking of Condor

[Alan De Smet <adesmet@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Chesal <ICHESAL@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have only ever been able to make the statically linked
> libraries work reliably in my RHEL/CentOS/SuSE mixed version
> environments. The dynamically linked versions have always died
> with missing and mismatched library errors for me.

If it's not hard to reproduce, details would be helpful.  Which
release of Condor did you try (version, OS, architecture)? Which
versions and architectures of RHEL, CentOS, SuSE had problems?
What were the error messages?

> In practice I find the statically linked binaries work very
> well across my mixed bag of OS versions and hardware. My
> experience says it's the dynamically linked libraries that
> cause me headaches.

Thanks for the report!  That's exactly why we're asking.

> What's your proposed timeline for dropping the statically
> linked binaries? I'll try and fit in some dynamic testing in
> the next few weeks. Tell you if they're still unstable for me.

Nothing is set in stone, but I believe we're talking about making
the change for 7.5.1 or 7.5.2.  The first stable release to
contain these changed would be 7.6.0.

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Alan De Smet                              Condor Project Research
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