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From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: Not providing static libraries (libkse/libpthread)
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:51:39PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> Is there a good reason for providing static libraries for
> libpthread/libkse?  I'd like to not support them to get
> rid of some hacks to make sure certain symbols are present
> in the static library case.

That would make static linking threaded applications impossible, no?

While I wouldn't mind seeing the whole system move to being
dynamically linked, I sure don't feel well about deprecating static
linking completely.  (No threads for static binaries is very close to
`deprecating completely' to me.)

Cheers,
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