Deployability is the job of the package manager, not compiler. You can always link dynamically and ship with all libraries and set rpath accordingly. Also: sta

Deployability is the job of the package manager, not compiler. You can always link dynamically and ship with all libraries and set rpath accordingly. Also: static linking is not deployability if the source code is not shipped to the target - you don't have _my_ version of a library which is patched to support my hardware.