Post by Nerohaving external programs link against libutil.a is a PITA because musl/glibc
also have a libutil.a in the library directory. IMHO the name could be changed
to something less general.
If you have musl/glibc libutil.a in sbase directory, you've got a real
problem indeed, but unrelated to this discussion.
sbase Makefile tells c99 to link against libutil.a, not to link against
util library in the library search path so no, there's no “PITA”
because the issue you're suggesting can't happen.