On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 23:48:21 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Although not very probably, until now Debian used to support static linking > (libdev packages provide .a files, and depend on libdev packages that > provide dependent .a files). That's not true, afaik. If you're linking statically, you have to figure out dependencies on your own. Cheers, Julien