Hi John, This project is to integrate an open source compiler package for the objective caml language.
By compared with other compilers, we found other compilers(SUNWgcc, SUN Studio) also inlcude static libraries. And we found the ocaml pkg in debian and fedora OS also include the static libraries. By some experiments, if we remove the static libraries, those applications(unison, mldonkey for example) written in ocaml can't be compiled due to "static library can't be found" error. Regards, Bill John Plocher ???: > Frank Che wrote: > >> This project need to integrate a few static library files (*.a). > > > In general, the library policy and the patch/update architecture > supported > by the linker require the use of shared objects and not static libs. > > Please provide more info as to why you must provide .a files instead > of following the library best practice/policies. Without an obvious > "duh", > this is probably reason enough for this case to be derailed. > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/libraries/ > > -John
