Re: ar "zero" flag

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080815.122211.156119175.he%uninett.no@localhost>,
Havard Eidnes  <he%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
>> i do not want static linking to go away.
>
>Neither do I.
>
>For instance, Sun's Java, at least version 1.5, links some libraries
>statically into their own shared library, and removing the ability to
>do static linking would make getting java running even more difficult,
>if not impossible to use afterwards in certain dynamically linked
>programs.  (Yes, the java build was responsible for revision 1.2 of
>pkgsrc/mk/wrapper/buildcmd, which fixed PR#37228.)
>
>But...  I can't beleive the suggestion to entirely deprecate static
>linking is a serious suggestion?!?
>
>What about crunched binaries as used for our install and the /rescue
>binaries?
>
>> at the very least, it makes some debugging *way* more easy.
>
>This is hearsay, but I vaguely seem to recall that we have had issues
>both with debugging and profiling for shared programs?  It strikes me
>as a Bad Idea to make those two even more difficult.

I think that was a bug in the java build.

christos