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From: Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: amd64/71674: static libraries cannot be linked when building
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The following reply was made to PR amd64/71674; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, pete@twisted.org.uk
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Subject: Re: amd64/71674: static libraries cannot be linked when building shared libraries
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:37:40 -0800

 As i am occasionally toying around with GNUstep as well ... and
 noticed that originally the FreeBSD ports-version of GNUstep
 essentially required an actual libobjc.so (and hence required to build
 a gcc-3.3.5 iirc and get its libobjc.so from there) .... i have since
 noticed that it is indeed possible to build GNUstep on FreeBSD/i386
 using just our static libobjc.a
 
 I am wondering though if there is any specific reason for Not
 reverting this "bogus" disabling of libobjc.so for i386 as well ?
 
 i recall reading somewhere that certain elements of the Objective-C
 runtime would require a dynamic libobjc ... though i don't recall
 where i read this at the moment ... and it seems not to really impact
 GNUstep's functioning.
 
 But if there is no real reason (besides apprently so called
 performance impact .. which i hope may have been improved on since
 1998) ... i would definately appreciate this change reverted on i386
 as well ... (if only for consistency's sake concerning the libraries
 provided by the base system between different FreeBSD architectures)
 
 With kind regards,
   Pascal Hofstee