[gentoo-dev] Re: sys-libs/ncurses: erronious deletion of *.dll.a files; possibly other packages affected

[Michael Haubenwallner]

On 09/29/2017 03:36 AM, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:35:20PM +0000, Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Marty E. Plummer
>> <hanetzer@×××××××××.com> wrote:
>>> arfrever suggests I send a mail here, as there are other packages which
>>> may be affected by this issue and perhaps a more generalized fix is
>>> required instead of an explicit fix in sys-libs/ncurses and other ebuilds
>>> that may require it.
>>
>> I think the solution here is to remove those overly broad "find
>> -delete" statements and replace them with something safer.
>>
>> Ideally the build system(s) would be patched to not compile static
>> libs in the first place.
>>
>> If that's not possible, perhaps an eclass function could be created to
>> safely remove static libs.
>>
> Honestly I already have a pr up that fixes this particular package's
> issue, fairly simple fix https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5734
>
> --- a/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.0-r1.ebuild
> +++ b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.0-r1.ebuild
> @@ -241,7 +241,8 @@ multilib_src_install() {
>  		# Provide a link for -lcurses.
>  		ln -sf libncurses$(get_libname) "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libcurses$(get_libname) || die
>  	fi
> -	use static-libs || find "${ED}"/usr/ -name '*.a' -delete
> +	# don't delete '*.dll.a', needed for linking #631468
> +	use static-libs || find "${ED}"/usr/ -name '*.a' ! -name '*.dll.a' -delete

In prefix overlay we have this version:

  use static-libs || find "${ED}"/usr/ -name '*.a' -not -name "*$(get_libname)" -delete

/haubi/