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 E0B42138010 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F1D421C02B; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2AA21C001 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:15:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.43.223] (unknown [94.164.108.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: lu_zero) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 55B5B33C1EF for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <505DD5F5.9040305@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:15:01 +0200 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120801 Thunderbird/14.0 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs References: <503C0DAC.8050207@gentoo.org> <201209032254.15788.reavertm@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201209032254.15788.reavertm@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 72a3bfc8-1d6b-447c-aeca-03e899c7e60b X-Archives-Hash: 9b8f709fb6a551a1a42012662cd17a2c On 09/03/2012 10:54 PM, 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). Complain to cmake devs, hopefully they might come up with a solution. (the alternative is provide a clean autotools-based build system and ask upstream to please keep both. Usually works nice to cover all bases and make all people happy ^^; lu