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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>
Cc: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:21:14
Message-Id: 20081125172109.GF27769@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem by Alan Hourihane
1 On 25-11-2008 17:19:12 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 18:15 +0100, Fabian Groffen wrote:
3 > > On 25-11-2008 17:12:04 +0000, Alan Hourihane wrote:
4 > > > But I don't see why static libraries shouldn't be moved out of /lib
5 > > > anyway, they should always be in /usr/lib.
6 > > >
7 > > > So why don't we just remove the
8 > > >
9 > > > [[ $(get_libname) != .a ]] &&
10 > > >
11 > > > and leave the mv there ??
12 > >
13 > > I think gentoo-x86 thinks otherwise. GCC would think it had to link
14 > > against the static libraries if it encountered them in /usr/lib next to
15 > > the dynamic ones. There's a comment on that somewhere.
16 >
17 > Eh??
18 >
19 > Linking to static libraries requires "gcc -static" to link against
20 > static libraries. It defaults to shared, then static without.
21
22 http://bugs.gentoo.org/4411
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25 --
26 Fabian Groffen
27 Gentoo on a different level

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Re: [gentoo-alt] readline ebuild problem Alan Hourihane <alanh@×××××××××××.uk>