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

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:07:00 +0200
Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@gmail.com> wrote:

> And as it was pointed out before. Static builds are not needed most
> of the time. There is only 2 packages that actually need the static
> libraries. The rest fails due to upstream bugs in the
> configure/makefile (recognizing --disable-static but only applying it
> partially).

In your test case. With USE=static or when checking the whole tree you'd
almost definitely get more packages needing it. Note that I'm not
saying that there shouldn't be another way to disable
building/installing static libs or that the general message of static
builds being irrelevant in many cases is wrong, just that the claim of
"only 2 packages needing it" is bogus.

Marius

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