gtkhtml3-3.8.1-1 rpm -ql gtkhtml3 | grep "\.a" /usr/lib/gtkhtml/libgnome-gtkhtml-editor-3.8.a We shouldn't be shipping static libraries, see e.g.: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines
Should be fixed in gtkhtml3-3.8.1-2