> Other libraries also have _pic.a files that are much larger than the > others versions. Is there a bug that causes them not to be CTF-converted, > or is this deliberate?
the _pic.a libraries are special case we could choose to stop shipping. they're useful if someone wants to build a special case application for some reason (tm), but almost never used by the vast majority of people. they're created as part of create the .so, and the .so has its debug info moved out, but apparently we've never created any makefile or sets infrastructure to do this for _pic.a. perhaps we should choose not to install them by default. you can turn it off already with MKPICINSTALL=no. .mrg.
