[arch-general] static libraries in packages

[Doug Newgard]

On 2014-05-14 03:23, Christian Hesse wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I just opened a bug report about libmariadbclient package shipping with 
> static
> libraries [0]. Taking a look at my libs dir I found some more...
> 
> # ll /usr/lib/*.a | wc -l
> 210
> 
> Any reason packages start shipping static libraries again? Or is there 
> any
> build system with wrong settings in makepkg.conf?
> 
> [0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40352

They were specifically re-enabled in libmariadbclient, not sure why, 
though.

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mariadb&id=74ef541c06d70e373ce90dbae2e507185914651f

I only have 36 on my system, most related to gcc or glibc. What are all 
of yours?