Since gnudatalanguage-gdl isn't working due to ImageMagic issues (and thus needs a rebuild anyway...). And hdf5.so is a dependency of gdl I like to have the static hdf5 ASAP in the system. Next step would be to finish #805.

I know someone (you?) suggested to change all libraries to static only and I understand the motivation, because we had some problems with shared libraries removed by bee update. On the other hand - if we want to allow old code to linger around (as we would with links against static libraries) we could as well find a system to keep old shared libraries while there are still users.

One advantage of shared libraries over static libraries is the sharing of the physical memory between processes using the library from different binaries.

The static proposal came from me, but I didn't mean all, just the usual culprits fftw, hdf5 and the like. Since not many other binaries use them, and we would benefit from not bothering with two apps that need a distinct so.

d’accord

Objection. #1146