From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874F6138010 for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:19:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C141BE08BB; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:19:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-f53.google.com (mail-pb0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8214BE078C for ; Thu, 6 Sep 2012 08:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbro2 with SMTP id ro2so2378578pbb.40 for ; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:18:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=mRTt9dXG5KQNCGA72VT1Vdouf4suDj81pUcqTKF2ems=; b=CG7Jz16xQOXovOrXzNzho/rz8OmPTMMvAr0obZblG2Qkf1siCTChqpFVNqnlkzy5b5 qeTqHwfgin2FFvknR0UVFaX07TjB6StKjb4n+xvYH02B0Eq9zUfYhrxVCwNYkF5AeZij 5cixk57LSdcKyMfktk1OWw8O4Z/PVS6hLS1ZvOLSAeSRJK5tNFW/O9hrADXcFm+eeeZ9 i1+GsRJbd8CeYuS42JAlyvR9+vUwj6KHFo24cNgfqKdypKBI70khmlqqM9S6V1txSiEW mfq+bW++FNWyj2U/ZXWRF+YU/G15r18qiQ4udihStmVz+lhY8CCFWVO8VuLf78iQAWVU zpzw== Received: by 10.68.241.226 with SMTP id wl2mr3823398pbc.62.1346919514663; Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:18:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.gmail.com:587 (74-95-192-101-SFBA.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [74.95.192.101]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id rm9sm945861pbc.72.2012.09.06.01.18.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:18:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtp.gmail.com:587 (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:18:34 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 01:18:34 -0700 From: Brian Harring To: Maciej Mrozowski Cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs Message-ID: <20120906081834.GD18495@localhost> References: <503C0DAC.8050207@gentoo.org> <201209032254.15788.reavertm@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201209032254.15788.reavertm@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 3e147c9d-9309-4a3a-bbd5-9ed27e54ac8a X-Archives-Hash: ffd1bc24c0413d48e895e2060f6ec1e5 On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote: > > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package > > supports it? > > > > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo > > policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug? > > A little remark. > For CMake controlled buildsystem (as you're coming here from latest dev- > games/simgear), there's no automatic way of building both static and shared > libs (simgear allows to choose just one). > This is why I removed static libs support that you proposed for dev- > games/simgear (similar to ruby eclass abi handling - manually calling phases > twice to build package 1st as shared, 2nd time as static). > This is what I called "not worth the effort" in private discussion with you, > not quite "I don't care for static libs" :) Guessing in the worst case, you can do a double compile to get around this, no? And yes, that's freaking horrible, just verifying cmake isn't doing something special that blocks it. Is upstream doing anything about this, or is it not on their radar/list-of-things-they-care-about ? ~harring