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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 11:50:51 -0800
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:42:22PM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> Solaris and IRIX don't seem to provide static thread
> libraries.  Does anyone know if Linux does?

That's because they have abandoned static libraries completely,
if I'm not mistaken. Since we still link against archive libraries
is general, our decision to drop an archive threads library can
not really be based on that example alone.

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