On 08.01.23 17:42, ron minnich wrote:
> For reasons I still don't understand, the various linux distros no longer
> ship .a as part of the library package.

They ship them separately. On Ubuntu, usually a -dev package. I even
recall -devel-static packages (-devel was headers only and such)
~20 years back.

The reason to ship them separately is simple: not everybody has the
space/bandwidth to spare. These habits are decades old. Some newer
distros moved to ship everything in one package, though.

One odd thing about libuuid: The Ubuntu package is called uuid-dev
(not libuuid-dev). That's something I don't understand ;)

Nico