[oe] Revert "package bbclass: strip static libs as well"

[Phil Blundell]

On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 17:39 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Phil Blundell wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 10:48 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > > On 24-10-09 00:31, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> 
> > > > binutils-2.18-r8.1: /usr/lib/libiberty.a
> > 
> > I'm not convinced you really want to be shipping libiberty at all.
> > Every project that uses this library tends to bundle a local copy in
> > with its source code.
> 
> Probaby agree. One instance of libibery per distro with header still
> can exist.

Yeah, you could do that if you wanted.  Debian doesn't seem to ship it
which suggests that there isn't a great deal of demand for such a thing,
but it would be harmless enough.

> > Those are probably special.  I'm not quite sure what the deal is with
> > libstdc++_pic, that would need some further investigation.
> 
> _pic.a is a convenient name for static libraries, if their contents may
> be linked into a shared library (i. e. they are compiled with -fPIC).

Right, but it isn't entirely obvious to me why one would (in general)
want to install such a library.  Do you know what the actual use-case
for libstdc++_pic is?  If this is for mklibs-style library reduction
then it probably belongs in yet another subpackage if anywhere.

p.