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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:10:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Not providing static libraries (libkse/libpthread)
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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