Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> writes: > I'm inclined to build the static lib on windows as long as we do it on other > platforms.
Maybe I spent too much time working for Red Hat, but I'm kind of unhappy that we build static libraries at all. They are maintenance hazards and therefore security hazards by definition, because if you find a problem in $package_x you will have to find and rebuild every other package that has statically-embedded code from $package_x. So Red Hat has, or least had, a policy against packages exporting such libraries. I realize that there are people for whom other considerations outweigh that, but I don't think that we should install static libraries by default. Long ago it was pretty common for configure scripts to offer --enable-shared and --enable-static options ... should we resurrect that? regards, tom lane