From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31795138010 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DE37E0028; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:27:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64A6E0458 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:27:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.43] (unknown [96.231.195.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tetromino) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EA12833D808 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1346117225.9829.140.camel@rook> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs From: Alexandre Rostovtsev To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:27:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <503C0DAC.8050207@gentoo.org> References: <503C0DAC.8050207@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7f8d1023-40d7-454c-97e0-24ea810df2bc X-Archives-Hash: 9172c61020f23ae73b676aa2bb8b65ee On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 02:15 +0200, hasufell wrote: > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package > supports it? > > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo > policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug? For example, static linking is disabled in gtk+, pango, and gdk-pixbuf because they heavily rely on plugin loading. And anything that links to gtk+ should not be using static linking unless it wants to crash a lot.