Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:06:21 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: kse@elischer.org Subject: Re: Not providing static libraries (libkse/libpthread) Message-ID: <20030326190621.GB34946@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <3E81F6BB.BFFE3F33@vigrid.com> References: <3E81F6BB.BFFE3F33@vigrid.com>
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:51:39PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote: > Is there a good reason for providing static libraries for > libpthread/libkse? I'd like to not support them to get > rid of some hacks to make sure certain symbols are present > in the static library case. That would make static linking threaded applications impossible, no? While I wouldn't mind seeing the whole system move to being dynamically linked, I sure don't feel well about deprecating static linking completely. (No threads for static binaries is very close to `deprecating completely' to me.) Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@celabo.org> http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se
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