On Mon, 2013-12-30 at 23:29 +0100, Frans de Boer wrote: > Dear reader, > > While building things again, I now start to wonder why LFS let almost > every package installs a static library? Where are the static libraries > used?
Short version, because it's easier to let them install a static library, than to force them not to. Nothing actually uses them if a shared library is available, so while they're useless, there's little benefit in expending effort in avoiding their installation. Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
