glibc-devel vs. glibc-devel{,-static}

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Feb 19 15:56:05 UTC 2009


Bill Crawford wrote:
> Surely either the compiler, or binutils, would need to have that as a
> Requires: rather than every package that's built with gcc (especially
> since it's not the program itself that *has* that requirement, it's the
> toolchain).

But that defeats the purpose of being able to track everything which is
statically linked to something.

And I know I'm splitting hairs there. ;-) libc_nonshared.a and the other
nonshared stuff in glibc deserves an exception.

        Kevin Kofler




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