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On 4/29/07, Roman Zimmermann <mereandor@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm now using gentoo with EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-static" for a while and it |
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> seems quite stable. Sometimes I encounter a package that won't build with |
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> this setting, but that's a rare occasion. At the moment this packages are for |
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> me: |
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> dev-libs/libpcre |
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Disabling static libs in libpcre makes sys-apps/grep w/ USE=pcre bomb |
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out on compile... Just an example why you should always install both |
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of them. |
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> Disabling static linking has - for me - before all the advantage of reducing |
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> size for most packages - for some packages up to 50%. |
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> So I'm curious why (nearly?) all ebuilds build static _and_ dynamic libraries? |
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> I understand that the current way is pretty hassle-free. But from my |
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> perspective a (possibly officialy unsupported) way to make things easier for |
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> people who wan't the choice would be fine. |
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See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165629, |
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http://marc.info/?l=gentoo-dev&m=116026024223024&w=2 etc. |
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Jakub Moc |
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Email: jakub.moc@×××××.com |
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