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

[David Collier-Brown]

   Solaris is phasing them out, and no longer ships any in
64-bit releases, but can still create and use them, so
things like gnome can ship stuff like
/usr/lib/gtkhtml/libgnome-gtkhtml-editor-3.0.a

--dave

Michael Sweet wrote:
> 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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