Feature #12845: Do we need libruby-static.a?

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[ko1 (Koichi Sasada)]

On install directory, lib/libruby-static.a consumes 53MB on my Ubuntu 16 machine (4.4.0-42-generic, gcc 5.4.0). (Because I always use --enable-shared option) libruby.so consumes 15MB on same build.

Can we drop this libruby-static.a file from install file list?
Does anyone use this file?

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset r56434.

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install-static-library option [ci skip]

• configure.in (install-static-library): add option to enable/
  disable to install static ruby library. defaulted to "no" if
  enable-shared. [Feature #12845]
• tool/rbinstall.rb (local-arch-lib): respect the option.