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 1HiDiM-00019p-Me for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:01:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3THxWEs021604; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:59:32 GMT Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3THuDPL017031 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:56:14 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D4C8D30C for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:30:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29526-05 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:30:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from snowflake (unknown [62.6.163.66]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B15D68D305 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:30:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:56:03 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries Message-ID: <20070429185603.01cc67f0@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <20070429195058.48b3f600@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> References: <200704291032.06932.mereandor@gmail.com> <9fce88250704290154j744ae4a8v19ce701e87be0f9d@mail.gmail.com> <20070429113659.24f0af00@snowflake> <200704291843.33718.mereandor@gmail.com> <20070429195058.48b3f600@sheridan.genone.homeip.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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="Sig_s6wXNGk6ip/O3fS3Ojjy+xI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ferdyx.org X-Archives-Salt: b25ba119-4d1a-4526-ab96-bb94e8defc67 X-Archives-Hash: a7093421f67909cf8f3e0db070657b73 --Sig_s6wXNGk6ip/O3fS3Ojjy+xI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:50:58 +0200 Marius Mauch wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:43:29 +0200 > Roman Zimmermann 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? >=20 > What decision? That USE=3Dstatic 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_s6wXNGk6ip/O3fS3Ojjy+xI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGNNw196zL6DUtXhERAj85AJ4qMSn9elSEV7XFnAiGgbBJv8ctAQCgkWXH +sIqeUptY6t7A06cCj170Ho= =X4xQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_s6wXNGk6ip/O3fS3Ojjy+xI-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list