Bug#637758: Distributing static libraries

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:55:47 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote:

> Am 15.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Andres Mejia:
>> We could make these users build the libraries themselves, but then
>> they would also need to build all the build dependencies as well for
>> the library they need. This can be quite a burden on various
>
> He? Why would I have to recompile a library's build-dependencies in
> order to create a static library from it?

Because in order to link an application statically, each and every
dependent (static) library needs to be available as well.

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