[Starkit] System Library mismatches

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

Tom,

> I posted a patch to genkit back in September that allowed me
> to statically link libstdc++ when building TclKit.  See my messages:
>
> http://www.equi4.com/pipermail/starkit/2005-September/002514.html
> http://www.equi4.com/pipermail/starkit/2005-September/002521.html

Whoops, you did.  I'm inclined to either adopt this for Linux, or at  
least clearly document it so people can easily find out about this  
approach.  As Jeff indicates:

> I should note that ActiveTcl/TDK basekits statically link the
> libstdc++ specifically to avoid all these C++ idiosyncracies
> (or should I just say idiocies?).

Idiocies suits me fine ;) - it seems as if the Unix mindset of "just  
do configure/make" (in the simplest case) is not going away.  Worse  
still, I'm afraid it's not even being perceived as a problem.  Linux  
distro's do binaries, but redo the whole system to keep all the  
dependencies in sync.  Yuck - one has to wonder why no one has ever  
considered *reducing* the dependencies!!!

Imagine what our real world cities would be like if we always made  
changes to them by starting from scratch.  We'd *still* be in the  
stone age.

-jcw