Moving basic libs to a new repo and release them as a separate package

[Michael Sweet]

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:26:39AM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote about 'Re: Moving basic libs to a new repo and release them as a separate package':
>> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>>> Much as I (strongly) agree, this would mean 
>>> dropping support for  a few platforms - Stratos VOS
>>> and some of the other older unices. Is that  an issue?
>> Why couldn't we just use .a files in that instance?
>> The linker shouldn't really care which library it
>> picks up.
> Not all platforms support static libraries, at least to my knowledge...

Um, name one?  Every platform I've ever used (and I've used a lot,
including embedded platforms) has supported static libraries.

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