Description of problem: $ rpm -ql pango-devel.x86_64 | egrep "\.a$" || echo none none Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -q pango-devel.x86_64 --%{version}, %{release}\n" 1.14.9, 3.el5 $ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) # yum update Loading "rhnplugin" plugin rhel-x86_64-server-5 100% |=========================| 1.4 kB 00:00 Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update How reproducible: $ yum install pango-devel.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install pango-devel.x86_64 2. ls {,/usr}/lib64/*pango*.a 3. Actual results: Expected results: debian[1]:~$ dpkg -L libpango1.0-dev | egrep \\.a$ /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.a /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.a /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.a /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.a /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.a Additional info: packaging issue
We don't provide static libraries for most of the packages now. For pango specifically they don't work anyway as pango uses runtime modules for most of the work.