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On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 17:31 +0000, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 16:50, Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> ...
> > As was pointed out earlier Fedora packages static libraries in a "-static"
> > package, but this had other implications for OE due to -static already being
> > in use (for busybox and mplayer), I am not sure that this is not a problem
> > for OE-Core, I would need to investigate.  Meego also seems to use the
> > Fedora standard with "-static".
> ...
> 
> I personally prefer -static. -staticlib seems redundant for me since
> we can end with libfoo-staticlib

-static doesn't really work well given we already have -static packages
meaning something else (e.g. the busybox case).

Cheers,

Richard