Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem

[Alan Hourihane]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 18:15 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
> On 25-11-2008 17:12:04 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
> > But I don't see why static libraries shouldn't be moved out of /lib
> > anyway, they should always be in /usr/lib.
> >
> > So why don't we just remove the
> >
> > [[ $(get_libname) != .a ]] &&
> >
> > and leave the mv there ??
>
> I think gentoo-x86 thinks otherwise.  GCC would think it had to link
> against the static libraries if it encountered them in /usr/lib next to
> the dynamic ones.  There's a comment on that somewhere.

Eh??

Linking to static libraries requires "gcc -static" to link against
static libraries. It defaults to shared, then static without.

Alan.