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[RFC] disable static libraries?


libtool, while very commonly used, is the only major build system which creates both shared and static versions of every library by default. With the notable exceptions of libiconv and gettext, which are used in winsup/utils, most of the time the only purpose static libraries serve is to lengthen build times and enlarge -devel packages.

So my question is, do you think about adding --disable-static to the default configure flags in cygport, or is this better left to individual maintainers to (be encouraged to?) do this themselves?


Yaakov



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