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

["Jakub Moc" <jakub.moc@gmail.com>]

On 4/29/07, Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm now using gentoo with EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-static" for a while and it
> seems quite stable. Sometimes I encounter a package that won't build with
> this setting, but that's a rare occasion. At the moment this packages are for
> me:
> dev-libs/libpcre

Disabling static libs in libpcre makes sys-apps/grep w/ USE=pcre bomb
out on compile... Just an example why you should always install both
of them.

> Disabling static linking has - for me - before all the advantage of reducing
> size for most packages - for some packages up to 50%.
>
> So I'm curious why (nearly?) all ebuilds build static _and_ dynamic libraries?
> I understand that the current way is pretty hassle-free. But from my
> perspective a (possibly officialy unsupported) way to make things easier for
> people who wan't the choice would be fine.

See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165629,
http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=116026024223024&w=2 etc.

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Jakub Moc
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