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From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:46:13 -0300
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3 of 4 RFC] manual: add section about
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On 09/18/2013 02:40 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> The situation definitely needs to be clarified. We have gradually
> changed the semantic of BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB from "prefer static
> libraries" (which doesn't make any sense: you were getting static
> libraries for some packages, dynamic for some others) to "use only
> static libraries".

I think it's time to rename it to BR2_BUILD_STATIC or similar.
Who wants to take this one up? It shouldn't be hard.
Regards.