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From: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: Tim Lee <progscriptclone@gmail.com>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Guix build static libraries?
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 16:03:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211031160309.5b648139@primarylaptop.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fssh2ybn.fsf@nckx>

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On Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:48:19 +0100
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> My worry is that leaving .a files around will cause some build 
> systems to silently prefer them to the .so and link statically.  I 
> can't remember the name of the packages, but this does happen.
Could it also do that when the static libraries are split in their
own package/derivation like openssl:static for instance?

Denis.

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-31 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-31  4:49 Why doesn't Guix build static libraries? Tim Lee
2021-10-31 11:48 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-10-31 15:03   ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli [this message]
2021-10-31 16:13     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice

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