[sles-beta] static libraries

[Wendy Palm]

Hence my earlier question about not providing the static libraries.

Could we get a list of what static libraries aren't being provided anymore?


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> On Wed, May 28, Wendy Palm wrote:
> 
> > I think this is incorrect.  It's in the libbz2-devel rpm in SLE 11-SP3-SDK.
> 
> Static linking, especially with glibc, creates a lot of problems.
> The biggest ones are, that dynamic loading doesn't work correct
> anymore (which means that glibc NSS modules used by getXXnam() and
> similar functions don't function correct anymore) and that you
> need to recompile everything for every single bug fix or security
> update.
> For that reason we decided already 5 years ago to not ship
> static libraries anymore for a lot of packages, including libbz2.
> 
>   Thorsten
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