Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > Since spot was the person who described it to me, perhaps it would be > > best to get his input here. The way he stated it was that if there > > were > > static libs around at link time, they would get automatically linked, > > even if the didn't want them to. > > A lot of packages will look first for static libraries, then if (and > only if) they are not found, look for shared libraries. By splitting > into static and static-noshared, we can safely put in -devel and > -static-noshared and avoid this confusion. That's not the case for anything that just passes -l<foo>. Can't we just fix those packages? Bill -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
