Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-09-22 Thread Luca Barbato
On 09/22/2012 05:25 PM, hasufell wrote: > add_library(foostatic STATIC foo.cpp foo.h) > set_target_properties(foostatic PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME foo) > add_library(foo SHARED foo.cpp foo.h) Looks a bit kludgy but should work well as a macro, willing to contact upstream and/or ask cmake devs to incl

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-09-22 Thread hasufell
On 09/22/2012 05:15 PM, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 09/03/2012 10:54 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: >> On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote: >>> Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package >>> supports it? >>> >>> It seems some developers don't care about this

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-09-22 Thread Luca Barbato
On 09/03/2012 10:54 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote: >> Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package >> supports it? >> >> It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo >> policy on this? Isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-09-21 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Thursday 06 of September 2012 10:18:34 Brian Harring wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote: > > > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the > > > package supports it? > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-09-06 Thread Brian Harring
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote: > > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package > > supports it? > > > > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo >

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-09-03 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote: > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package > supports it? > > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo > policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug? A little remark. For CMake cont

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-08-28 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 28/08/2012 15:36, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > static-libs is for installing static libraries IN ADDITION to shared > libraries, not instead. > USE=static is for what you have in mind there. PE is not the same as ELF so on Windows you either build one or the other for a number of reasons. Now on a d

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-08-28 Thread Mart Raudsepp
On N, 1970-01-01 at 00:00 +, Gregory M. Turner wrote: > On 8/28/2012 1:09 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:15:40 +0200 > > hasufell wrote: > >> static-libs > > pointless > > I have to mask this flag for dev-libs/{gmp,mpc} in my cygwin overlay, > where one can have static or

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-08-28 Thread Gregory M. Turner
On 8/28/2012 1:09 AM, Michał Górny wrote: On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:15:40 +0200 hasufell wrote: static-libs pointless I have to mask this flag for dev-libs/{gmp,mpc} in my cygwin overlay, where one can have static or dynamic, but not both, as per. upstream requirements (no idea why). So FTR,

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-08-28 Thread Michał Górny
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:15:40 +0200 hasufell wrote: > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the > package supports it? > > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the > gentoo policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug? Some people believe that IUSE=st

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-08-27 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 02:15 +0200, hasufell wrote: > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package > supports it? > > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo > policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug? For example, static linking is dis

Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-08-27 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 27/08/2012 17:15, hasufell wrote: > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package > supports it? Most libtool software "supports" static-libs, because libtool let you build them, _but_ it might not be test or might not even work. One example is software that relies o

[gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs

2012-08-27 Thread hasufell
Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package supports it? It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug?