[FFmpeg-user] ffmpeg issue

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On 12/12/11 00:39, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 11.12.2011 19:54, schrieb Phil Rhodes:
>>> try to compile http://www.patrickfrei.ch/webalizer/ on fedora with enabled
>>> GeoIP support and you will fail because the GeoIP-devel from Fedora does
>>> not contain the static bits as all other devel-packages
>> I thought this was all super-simple and could be done by anyone's pet gerbil?
> even a trained monkey can install his os in a virtual machine for building
> packages and after reading some docs have an isolated build-environment
> instead install things without using his package-managment
>
> that the fedora-devel packages does not contain the static bits has the
> simple reason that no single package of the distribution should be static
> linked and you should also not do this as user, if you are not satisfied
> with this you can even install linux from scratch and learn how to
> satisfy your needs
>
>
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I'd suggest gentoo. There're a lot of packages with static USE,e.g. your 
geoip -

  dev-libs/geoip
      Available versions:  1.4.8 {ipv6 perl-geoipupdate static-libs}