Not providing static libraries (libkse/libpthread)

[Daniel Eischen]

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.

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Dan Eischen