From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE29D1396D0 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 469542BC01F; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:35:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED4CC2BC011 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:35:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (mail-wm0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9C31E341718 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id u138so4299875wmu.5 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:35:43 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AMCzsaWxY/MWoFxrumXgXW0TdpO9i+I6SSeOjq3h3+XEicfijjrXJFYO CQiIcKxO2PCOsPfFXT7HZQF9wHIyp7l3hr0ap5Y= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QCFMfxnV96uWJJSUlpML4KErxtoTR6knOis/UCq+i1QR09aFj26Zs411bpw7cmZgPIo6V0L/Q+VuyZoML6CqyI= X-Received: by 10.28.52.132 with SMTP id b126mr2044667wma.144.1506627340887; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:35:40 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.223.196.8 with HTTP; Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:35:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170921020139.kp4664tanr7cj77d@proprietary-killer.fossland> References: <20170921020139.kp4664tanr7cj77d@proprietary-killer.fossland> From: Mike Gilbert Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 15:35:20 -0400 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-libs/ncurses: erronious deletion of *.dll.a files; possibly other packages affected To: Gentoo Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Archives-Salt: 01de83fd-c064-4919-9d22-adf817661daf X-Archives-Hash: dbc2d41ba984c8e528e2ee10ea9828c1 On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Marty E. Plummer wrote: > arfrever suggests I send a mail here, as there are other packages which > may be affected by this issue and perhaps a more generalized fix is > required instead of an explicit fix in sys-libs/ncurses and other ebuilds > that may require it. I think the solution here is to remove those overly broad "find -delete" statements and replace them with something safer. Ideally the build system(s) would be patched to not compile static libs in the first place. If that's not possible, perhaps an eclass function could be created to safely remove static libs.