[gentoo-dev] Useflag static split

[Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>]

Lately I found lots of problems and inconsistency for the useflag static.

Sometimes it means "build only static", sometimes "build static and shared".

The problem:

If you need to build something static you need the static libs.

If the use flag depend is allowed probably that could be a dirty 
solution. Luckly it isn't yet, so we have to find a cleaner one:

1- split static in static and static-lib (static-lib will make the 
library build also the static version, static will build _just_ the 
static lib)

2- make everly library build always the static library and let use 
static just apply for executables.

Tell me what you think

lu

PS: some annoying examples: qemu:qemu-fast, openssh:static

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Luca Barbato
Developer
Gentoo Linux				http://www.gentoo.org/~lu_zero



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