Oliver Hartkopp

> Submodules are good but I don't think, it makes the life of a package maintainer in Debian, Buildroot, etc. easier. ok

> What about using shared libraries? Does that make things more complicated with installation, versioning, etc? E.g. if you build `candump` for an embedded device you would like to hack...

Sorry for my missing basics ... but how to I get a single `candump` binary after the build process generated a "dynamic" `candump` binary file and some `*.so` and `*.a`...

> > Does that make things more complicated with installation, versioning, etc? > > Choose your poison --- Split the code base or not. The j1939lib was very stable and...

So it could be possible to run 'make' in a way that it creates dynamically linked binaries OR statically linked binaries? When this is handy to use, it would be...

But this would require `cmake` then

That's great!