>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Aurele La France <tsi@ualberta.ca> writes:

    Marc> You must admit, though, that the current scheme, before my
    Marc> patch, prevents shared/static co-existence, which is not a
    Marc> Good Thing (tm).

Not really.  There is an AIX linker flag to treat shared objects (or
particular shared objects) as static.

The OS for example tends not to distribute static libs for anything.