On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:28:02PM +0100, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > > > On 10/04/2016 08:05, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > The only use case I could imagine is to create an executable that can > > > run outside of Debian. > Static builds are still common in (parts of) scientific computing. > Two main reasons: > > (1) When performance matters. Here we need the static library to be > built without > position independent code.
That's the funny part. Some use cases require non-PIC static libraries, and others require PIC static libraries. Should we then ship both? I think we can all agree that would be terrible. So why prioritize one over the other? Mike