static libs ... again

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sat Feb 18 10:45:52 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 21:38 -0500, Ed Hill wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Is there is a middle ground in this static libs discussion?
> 
> For instance, are there technical solutions such as:
> 
>  - all static libs should or perhaps must be in a -static 
>      sub-package
>  - no -static sub-packages are allowed as BuildRequires for 
>      other FC or FE packages

Wouldn't this be a problem for building lib-A-static, which depends on 
lib-B-static? Without a BR of lib-B-static, lib-A-static would be
dynamically linked to lib-B, rather defeating the purpose of having
lib-A-static? Or am I horribly confused?

Paul.




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