[arch-general] Static libs

[Allan McRae]

On 29/10/13 08:43, Carsten Mattner wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Timothée Ravier <siosm99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 26/10/2013 22:22, Carsten Mattner wrote:
>>> Yes but this was news to me and is unusual. So this should be stated
>>> clearly on archlinux.org or at least the wikipedia article.
>>
>> Please edit/update the pages you deem fit for this information in the
>> Arch Wiki and/or Wikipedia.
> 
> Checked Debian and Fedora and was surprised that both don't bundle
> .a files. Must be not that unusual and I was wrong.
> 

Not quite correct.   Fedora and Debian do provide static libs in their
-devel packages along with headers.

Allan