Add note about static libraries not linking their dependencies

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Add note about static libraries not linking their dependencies #1472

Open madsmtm opened 3 months ago

madsmtm commented 3 months ago

This confused me for a while, but this is just fundamentally how static libraries work.

Wading through some history on this, I think when specifying --crate-type=staticlib, rustc used to output the --print=native-static-libs note by default, but it doesn't anymore, so let's document it instead!