On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 01:27 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Since portage does not build static libraries by default...
But portage *does*. I think it does build static libs for packages that provide them, it's just that I don't think many do (for the reasons I mentioned in the previous post). In fact: $ equery l \*| while read l; do equery f $l|grep '\.a$' | \ sed 's/^/'"${l/"/"/\\/} "'-> /' ; done |wc -l Shows I have 756 static libs on my system (cut off the "|wc -l" to see what they are).