[RFC] disable static libraries?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:30:45PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>libtool, while very commonly used, is the only major build system which 
>creates both shared and static versions of every library by default. 
>With the notable exceptions of libiconv and gettext, which are used in 
>winsup/utils, most of the time the only purpose static libraries serve 
>is to lengthen build times and enlarge -devel packages.
>
>So my question is, do you think about adding --disable-static to the 
>default configure flags in cygport, or is this better left to individual 
>maintainers to (be encouraged to?) do this themselves?

I think it sounds like it's a good idea to make it the default.

cgf