From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:56:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070429185603.01cc67f0@snowflake> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070429195058.48b3f600@sheridan.genone.homeip.net>
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:50:58 +0200
Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:43:29 +0200
> Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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?
>
> What decision? That USE=static shouldn't be used for (not) installing
> static libraries is simply because the flag is used to control how
> (parts of) a package should be linked and global flags
> shouldn't be used for completely different purposes. That's been the
> case since the beginning, so I doubt you'll find any dicussion about
> it.
The more interesting question is why static libraries are built and
installed for most packages at all.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-29 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-29 8:32 [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries Roman Zimmermann
2007-04-29 8:54 ` Jakub Moc
2007-04-29 10:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-04-29 16:43 ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-04-29 17:50 ` Marius Mauch
2007-04-29 17:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2007-04-29 18:21 ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-04-29 18:46 ` paul kölle
2007-04-29 19:04 ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-04-29 19:31 ` Marius Mauch
2007-04-29 19:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-04-29 20:05 ` Olivier Crête
2007-04-29 21:50 ` Rémi Cardona
2007-04-29 21:56 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-04-29 22:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-04-30 3:07 ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-04-30 3:35 ` Marius Mauch
2007-04-30 7:28 ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-04-30 8:49 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2007-04-30 19:00 ` [gentoo-dev] " Kevin F. Quinn
2007-05-01 7:28 ` Roman Zimmermann
2007-05-01 2:49 ` Peter Gordon
2007-05-01 5:16 ` Donnie Berkholz
2007-05-01 9:16 ` Radoslaw Stachowiak
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