From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hi4sA-0008Gn-U1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:35:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3T8YG32022937; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:34:16 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3T8WEkC020513 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:32:15 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABFED64916 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:32:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: 0.656 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.656 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.656] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id td+9t3MO78ba for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.231]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D27EF64801 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:32:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id t13so1209383wxc for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:32:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=dTib/sdwpabVTvW6iksJIzqHkIOotFGXcN+mCcsVyXIv2M5w9djjU3pfkZawLK2RWWTG0TB47b9Hx4Aweo+QCeCTa+/KrrEK1cgSRRM+cfVHOlPbVcoSyRQ2OLYOjFkYt18r0K45stWAYuM0EgagR7bJTqju4mRRO/XfBYMdu/A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=cMT6ofIK34aDe4PEdBWzfNGiZdAFupM0c40zPtMsU6LrF2A/VjqHjnA19gM5fUIyqt53DF2p+vPhNYReVz2MDZz7Lq9XMnxj11Rc+VBPKd44LX4QELYOMWKlJHmY/2GIfyFdQ0Pw0PotPZvEK0hKjMb9fmWxUZol4SoYyBLIXco= Received: by 10.82.116.15 with SMTP id o15mr9250710buc.1177835529524; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pender.zimmermann.local ( [85.124.110.28]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b36sm6943076ika.2007.04.29.01.32.08; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:32:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Roman Zimmermann To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:32:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart9356365.hyd8lTnFzn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200704291032.06932.mereandor@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f22c1a74-1733-48ae-998a-e8f54c8d4f51 X-Archives-Hash: 204da3d37fe2b1330b072937d2409d38 --nextPart9356365.hyd8lTnFzn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I'm now using gentoo with EXTRA_ECONF=3D"--disable-static" for a while and = it=20 seems quite stable. Sometimes I encounter a package that won't build with=20 this setting, but that's a rare occasion. At the moment this packages are f= or=20 me: x11-libs/libXxf86vm sys-devel/gdb-6.6 dev-libs/jrtplib-3.5.2 dev-libs/libpcre sys-apps/ed I see that this way to disable static libraries is not perfect.=20 Disabling static linking has - for me - before all the advantage of reducin= g=20 size for most packages - for some packages up to 50%. So I'm curious why (nearly?) all ebuilds build static _and_ dynamic librari= es? I understand that the current way is pretty hassle-free. But from my=20 perspective a (possibly officialy unsupported) way to make things easier fo= r=20 people who wan't the choice would be fine. I'm sorry if there has been such a discussion already. Also I don't want to= =20 start a flame about what is the better choice (static or dynamic). regards Roman --nextPart9356365.hyd8lTnFzn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGNFgGIAIA2PPsul0RAnqjAJ9O6cWOM4jVy8+GU+xRix1Q6P42rwCeMyLm /ESux89c1OpauerongMhNJE= =Ewde -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart9356365.hyd8lTnFzn-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list