Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:10:52 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> Cc: kse@elischer.org Subject: Re: Not providing static libraries (libkse/libpthread) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10303261408520.5144-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030326190621.GB34946@madman.celabo.org>
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > 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? Correct. Solaris does not provide static libthread/libpthread. > 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.) Yup. That's what I'm advocating. -- Dan Eischen
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