On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:11:33 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am 15.08.2011 09:42, schrieb Reinhard Tartler: >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 08:55:47 (CEST), Fabian Greffrath wrote: >> >>> Am 15.08.2011 03:48, schrieb Andres Mejia: >>>> We could make these users build the libraries themselves, but then >>>> they would also need to build all the build dependencies as well for >>>> the library they need. This can be quite a burden on various >>> >>> He? Why would I have to recompile a library's build-dependencies in >>> order to create a static library from it? >> >> Because in order to link an application statically, each and every >> dependent (static) library needs to be available as well. > > Sure, but that's not required to *build* a static library and > furthermore not an issue that we can address in our library packages.
Well, it depends if you expect the libraries to be of any practical use. I could imagien as valid use caseto produce a (partly) statically built binary that works on a larger amount of distributions. But granted, we are now in the speculation area. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
