Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries

[Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@gmail.com>]

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Am Sonntag 29 April 2007 12:36 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:54:12 +0200
>
> "Jakub Moc" <jakub.moc@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4/29/07, Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm now using gentoo with EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-static" for a
> > > while and it seems quite stable. Sometimes I encounter a package
> > > that won't build with this setting, but that's a rare occasion. At
> > > the moment this packages are for me:
> > > dev-libs/libpcre
> >
> > Disabling static libs in libpcre makes sys-apps/grep w/ USE=pcre bomb
> > out on compile... Just an example why you should always install both
> > of them.
>
> No, that's an example of why you should sometimes install both.

These are 5 packages out of 845 on my system. For those with version number it 
is only a compile time error, when make errornously tries to build a static 
target. Those without number are needed static by another package or don't 
like --disable-static (sys-apps/ed). That leaves 2 out of 845.
So I'm with Ciaran here: It works for almost all packages and makes at least 
some difference. Maybe enough to (really) give the users the choice (without 
the ugly EXTRA_ECONF-hack)?

Those links Jakub posted are interesting, but I don't find an explanation why 
this decission was made. Maybe you have a link to that discussion too?

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