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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525346
--- Comment #18 from William Cohen wcohen@redhat.com 2009-10-09 12:19:09 EDT --- PAPI builds the static library. This might have been used because of the lack of share library versioning:
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/UserInfo/Resources/Software/Tools/PAPI/
Or because some PAPI targets do not support shared libraries (IBM blue gene):
http://ipm-hpc.sourceforge.net/installation.html
However, on Fedora it would probably be reasonable to remove the static libraries as mentioned at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Packaging_Static_Librari...