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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:16:19
Message-Id: 505DD5F5.9040305@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs by Maciej Mrozowski
1 On 09/03/2012 10:54 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote:
3 >> Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package
4 >> supports it?
5 >>
6 >> It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo
7 >> policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug?
8 >
9 > A little remark.
10 > For CMake controlled buildsystem (as you're coming here from latest dev-
11 > games/simgear), there's no automatic way of building both static and shared
12 > libs (simgear allows to choose just one).
13
14 Complain to cmake devs, hopefully they might come up with a solution.
15 (the alternative is provide a clean autotools-based build system and ask
16 upstream to please keep both. Usually works nice to cover all bases and
17 make all people happy ^^;
18
19 lu

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Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs hasufell <hasufell@g.o>