Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building static libraries

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

At Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:28:21 -0800 walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:

> Renat Golubchyk wrote:
>
>> As you said, you really are confused. :-) Maybe I wasn't clear enough.
>> Anyway, I've written a program, and I need it as a statically linked
>> binary. In order to link statically the linker (ld) needs all the used
>> libraries in static form, i.e. as a .a and not as a .so file. Since
>> portage does not build static libraries by default I need a way to tell
>> portage that I really do want to have .a files built.
>> 
>> I do _not_ want to create a Gentoo package, at least not at this stage
>> of development.
>
> Still confused :o(
>
> Portage is for building Gentoo packages -- if you don't want to build a
> Gentoo package then why is portage involved?  You can compile and link
> your program with any flags you want to, so as to get static binaries.

Portage is also for (indeed, is primarily used for) fetching and
installing Gentoo packages.  The OP wants portage to install the
statically linked version of libraries for which it currently installs
only the dynamically linked versions.

allan