Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-29 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Allan McRae wrote: > On 29/10/13 08:43, Carsten Mattner wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Timothée Ravier 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 arch

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-28 Thread Allan McRae
On 29/10/13 08:43, Carsten Mattner wrote: > On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Timothée Ravier 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 e

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-28 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Timothée Ravier 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 inform

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-26 Thread Timothée Ravier
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. Tim

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-26 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2013-10-26 09:39:21 +0200] Carsten Mattner: >> So that means Arch Linux has always been unique in that regard >> and it has been by lucky accidence static linking of libs installed >> by pacman worked? > > Yes. > >> If that's the case this

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-26 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-10-26 09:39:21 +0200] Carsten Mattner: > So that means Arch Linux has always been unique in that regard > and it has been by lucky accidence static linking of libs installed > by pacman worked? Yes. > If that's the case this should be documented the same way other > distros (suckless) do no

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-26 Thread Carsten Mattner
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: > [2013-10-25 10:10:55 +0200] Carsten Mattner: >> Is there still a way to statically link libraries where >> the recent change to remove the .a files has been >> completed? > > To build something statically you will just need to rebuild its > d

Re: [arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-25 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2013-10-25 10:10:55 +0200] Carsten Mattner: > Is there still a way to statically link libraries where > the recent change to remove the .a files has been > completed? To build something statically you will just need to rebuild its dependencies statically too. Note that static libraries have never

[arch-general] Static libs

2013-10-25 Thread Carsten Mattner
Is there still a way to statically link libraries where the recent change to remove the .a files has been completed?