Re: proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5

[Alexandre Oliva <aoliva redhat com>]

On Jul 22, 2005, Jens Petersen <petersen redhat com> wrote:

> Some packages may have a --disable-static configure option for
> example to help with this, or they can just be deleted easily by
> hand in the %install section.

--disable-static is the way to go.  Deleting the .a file will break
the corresponding .la file, if it exists.

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