From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hi5FC-0005qa-IN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:58:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3T8vE4J000521; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:57:14 GMT Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.248]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3T8sJeo028719 for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:54:20 GMT Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so983686ana for ; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:54:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YLwFbfGoTUJqozNj03gi9I1TtTeEjCV9yn3T/E5jmBwth4QHtI6zxYa4ksU6I2sb1rqM1iHY8y0tzwgjsdisrE+GB+fBvjgvccFhj8IuQWo3VnnCZ20lpAck8hvXzDMnfvcXgY/Kz2CXEEn3HYweRXmxCNLl3smjfIfso4AiQS0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fco0jUHJFEy3OpuwD3EHw3Cs9b80BPprCOymEBTDz+rzb3eI2VEf0lom5KW0KuezMUbSznZ5TAzFu3cpc97EBx0/ONE1jA/1r9exaqe947ABHgdXVsyoXVsoFS8DuWwKgB8YEi0CSlrwmGhXque1mtBRqKr00Pm7d9FwY5lpoyQ= Received: by 10.100.171.16 with SMTP id t16mr3283208ane.1177836852129; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.107.17 with HTTP; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 01:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9fce88250704290154j744ae4a8v19ce701e87be0f9d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:54:12 +0200 From: "Jakub Moc" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo: static/dynamic linking libraries In-Reply-To: <200704291032.06932.mereandor@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200704291032.06932.mereandor@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9282238f-0b40-40ec-99c6-ccf3bdc41b18 X-Archives-Hash: d6f66c90a87aa8d4014a9819997d5b22 On 4/29/07, Roman Zimmermann 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. -- Jakub Moc Email: jakub.moc@gmail.com -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list