On Aug 21, 2008, at 3:37 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
At the risk of suggesting a compromise which noone likes, we
could put the .a files into a separate 'static dev' set which
sysinst sets to not-installed by default...
This partially defeats the purpose. The main reason for doing this is to move the ABI compatibility boundary out into userspace where it belongs. I want the message to be "if you do this, you are on your own... we make no guarantees about binary compatibility", and providing an easy way to install the static libraries dilutes the message.
-- thorpej