Hi there

It's been some time since I built Husky software and when I did it was using a process that has now changed.

I've been following the new steps and am up to looking at huskymak.cfg and the changes I need to make to it.

I'm comparing my old huskymak.cfg from the old building process with the new one.

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?

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

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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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On 25 Sep 2022 at 02:17p, Paul Hayton pondered and said...

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

interesting thanks, so no static linking

With DYNLIBS=0 the binaries are statically linked. You can run these binaries on another system without rebuilding. For example you can co

This setting confused me, but I went with 0 and I think that was the way to go - I hope :)

After installing a few more dependencies I ran the script and it all built, then ran sudo make -j install and it all seemed to work, so thats' great. I hope from now on I can just run those two steps from time to time and all will build and install... much nicer system :)

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With DYNLIBS=0 the binaries are statically linked. You can run these
binaries on another system without rebuilding. For example you can co

This setting confused me, but I went with 0 and I think that was the way to go
- I hope :)

Yes, this confused me at first but static linking works too.

After installing a few more dependencies I ran the script and it all built, then ran sudo make -j install and it all seemed to work, so thats' great. I hope from now on I can just run those two steps from time to time and all will build and install...

Yes, I think that is the case but this new way of doing things is still new to me.

much nicer system :)

I actually prefer dynamic linking, everything here is dynamically linked except the husky stuff.

Static linking does have the advantage that I can simply copy hpt/htick/pktinfo to another machine and they work without needing to buld the libs in
/usr/local/lib64.

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