[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#576238: libopenmpi-dev: Cannot compile static application

[Andrey Gursky]

Hi,

2014-04-07 18:03 GMT+02:00, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre at debian.org>:
> On 07/04/2014 17:55, Andrey Gursky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> according to the output in the original message, the static libraries
>> were at least available, which is not the case now. After the
>> packaging has been reworked [1], the static libraries were silently
>> gone. Why?
>>
> I am not the one who did this modification but, usually, we don't really
> put too much effort in static library packaging.
> We prefer to focus on shared library.
>
> However, we will be happy to apply any patch for this...
>
> Sylvestre
>

Is Manuel still participating at Debian or one shouldn't count on him?

Andrey

P.S. It's a little bit curious, that while golang (a modern
development) is static based, OpenSuse threw (allmost?) all static
libraries away. Hope, Debian wouldn't do this. It's not often, when
they are needed, but when, it's nice to have them. By the way, e.g.
GLib being a shared library behaves like a static one regarding
dynamic loading. Once loaded it can't be unloaded and loaded again
without leaking memory.