But in some cases static libs are no longer provided at all. Would be nice to know if that's the case for libuuid.
On Sun, Jan 8, 2023, 9:24 AM Nico Huber <nic...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 08.01.23 17:42, ron minnich wrote: > > For reasons I still don't understand, the various linux distros no longer > > ship .a as part of the library package. > > They ship them separately. On Ubuntu, usually a -dev package. I even > recall -devel-static packages (-devel was headers only and such) > ~20 years back. > > The reason to ship them separately is simple: not everybody has the > space/bandwidth to spare. These habits are decades old. Some newer > distros moved to ship everything in one package, though. > > One odd thing about libuuid: The Ubuntu package is called uuid-dev > (not libuuid-dev). That's something I don't understand ;) > > Nico >
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