On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:21:55 -0400 Thomas Anderson <gentoofa...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Why are we trying to get rid of static libraries again? I have not > seen any compelling reason to remove libraries that may be useful to > our users. Perhaps I've missed some discussion(in which case, I'd > love to read it), but this seems like an unnecessary complexity. I am a user. I don't want them. The current situation where q...@g.o requires .a files to be installed is just ghastly. A policy with no good reason whatsoever, other than "the ancients did it this way, so shall we." TBH, i see more reasons for splitdebug and -ggdb being defaults than I do for static libs. And even then, I'd want a way to turn it off. A reasonable default would be --disable-static. Then libs that have in-tree consumers of their static libs could then make a use-flag, users who need them could use EXTRA_ECONF="--enable-static". But that's not what I'm after. For now I just want a way to turn .a generation off. At the moment 500MB of prime space on /usr/lib64 is being used by .a files. That's about 450MB more than is needed (last I checked). /loki_val
