[Distutils] freebsd .a files

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> How do I specify a static library. I have libraries=['gd'], but I don't
> seem to load symbols from libgd.a instead I have to use
> libraries=['libgd.a'] is that right?

No, you should use the first variant. The compiler will then either
take the correspopnding .so file or .a file with a preference for the
shared object file (at least that's what gcc does).

See distutils/ccompiler.py for details.

In general it is a better idea to link to shared libs since these
provide more flexibility on the user side.

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