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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Paul Hayton
from: Alan Ianson
date: 2022-09-24 02:59:00
subject: Building

> My question is that in my old .cfg I had a switch DYNLIBS=1 whereas the
> default setting for the new huskymak.cfg is DYNLIBS=0

> I'm wondering if I should set this to 1 or leave as default?

I have been leaving mine to the new default, 0.

> My system is a Debian Linux one and I am not a very experienced Linux user..

The difference is that husky no longer depends on the files in..

/usr/local/lib{64}

With DYNLIBS=0 the binaries are statically linked. You can run these binaries on another system without rebuilding. For example you can copy pktinfo to another machine and it will run there.

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