Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Dropping static libs support from cryptsetup and lvm2

[Pacho Ramos]

El mar, 30-07-2013 a las 11:42 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió:
> On 29/07/13 23:57, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > As discussed at:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478476
> >
> > Upstream is dropping static libs from udev and, then, sys-apps/udev is
> > currently reverting that commit downstream (even if upstream says some
> > problems could appear in the future as nobody is taking care of static
> > stuff there).
> >
> > Grepping in the tree, looks like only some old genkernel versions are
> > depending on it. Apart of that, what is requiring static libs in
> > cryptsetup and lvm2?
> >
> > Thanks a lot
> >
>
> cryptsetup upstream installed minimal Gentoo setup and tested our
> handling of 'static' and was disappointed finding them broken
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438998 - cryptsetup static+pcre
> fails
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468400 - cryptsetup
> static+selinux fails
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472692 - cryptsetup static+ssl fails
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462908 - lvm2 static-libs
> missing library
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467204 - lvm2 static USE flag
> missing proper description, yes this is minor
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370217 - lvm2 fails to build due
> to missing -lrt, likely related to linking against libudev, yes the
> feature we are discussing to be dropped has been completely broken for ages
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439414 - lvm2 static+selinux fails
>
> So we are not talking about removing anything that works, but something
> users get hit by reading outdated guides that instruct them to enable
> USE=static
>
> +1 for punting broken features
>
>

We should drop that broken support I guess, but will CC its maintainers
here too (they are CCed in bug report already)