[arch-general] Does something in makepkg now remove '*.a' files automatically during package?

[David C. Rankin]

On 01/20/2014 03:02 PM, Alexandre Ferrando wrote:
> This thread [ 1 ] might tell you why. In short, !staticlibs is now a
> default in makepkg.conf
> 
> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-October/025542.html
> 

Thank you. That explains it. Dense again... I had read both 'man pkgbuild' and
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD, but had completely missed the new
staticlibs option.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.