On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 16:12 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Lately I found lots of problems and inconsistency for the useflag static.
> 
> Sometimes it means "build only static", sometimes "build static and shared".
> 
> The problem:
> 
> If you need to build something static you need the static libs.
> 
> If the use flag depend is allowed probably that could be a dirty 
> solution. Luckly it isn't yet, so we have to find a cleaner one:
> 
> 1- split static in static and static-lib (static-lib will make the 
> library build also the static version, static will build _just_ the 
> static lib)
> 
> 2- make everly library build always the static library and let use 
> static just apply for executables.

Something like nptl+nptlonly makes a decent parallel -- static
+staticonly.

But Mike makes a good point.