On 29/10/13 08:43, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Timothée Ravier <siosm99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 26/10/2013 22:22, Carsten Mattner wrote: >>> Yes but this was news to me and is unusual. So this should be stated >>> clearly on archlinux.org or at least the wikipedia article. >> >> Please edit/update the pages you deem fit for this information in the >> Arch Wiki and/or Wikipedia. > > Checked Debian and Fedora and was surprised that both don't bundle > .a files. Must be not that unusual and I was wrong. > Not quite correct. Fedora and Debian do provide static libs in their -devel packages along with headers. Allan