On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:42:42AM +0100, Martin MC Brown wrote:

> Some applications will want to link statically against the functions in the 
> archive libraries.

Why?  And do these applications generally put the archive library directly
on the link line, or do they use -L and -l?

If there's no technical reason for people to use archive libraries (and
there almost certainly isn't) and we're not going to break application
builds by removing them, then I'd much rather not ship them (as long as the
shared libraries are easily generated).

Danek

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