Ports without matching .a/.dylib files

David Gilman davidgilman1 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 31 15:55:49 UTC 2018


I recently needed a .a file built for a port and opened a PR for it.
Out of the several ports that I needed .a files from this was the only
one that was missing the .a. I was curious to see how often ports have
a .dylib but not a corresponding .a and vice versa so I made a list of
all the packages who do not have matching files. I am sure there are
many situations in this list where it is not practical or possible to
have both but there is also probably plenty of opportunity for
cleanup.

http://sprunge.us/6QWqeH

Also thanks to Ryan Schmidt for sharing his wisdom on static linking
in the github PR.

-- 
David Gilman
:DG<


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