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On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 14:37 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > So static libs add an extra ~30mins of processing (7%) and ~5 mins to
> > the overall build time. Not as much of a gain as I'd have liked but
> > interesting none the less.
> 
> Do you know how many packages actually respect the --disable-static
> flag?  I don't think (e)glibc does, for example, which is a bit of a
> shame since it obviously has one of the largest build times.

I did a quick search over the resulting build looking for image/*.a
files and it seems a lot of the system did respect it. There were some
significant exceptions (eglibc, boost, openssl spring to mind) but in
general it looked pretty good.

Cheers,

Richard