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

[William Hubbs]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 07:36:12PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2013-08-01, o godz. 13:32:28
> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> napisał(a):
>
> > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> > > Dnia 2013-08-01, o godz. 17:17:35
> > > Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> napisał(a):
> > >
> > >> On 01/08/13 17:04, William Hubbs wrote:
> > >> > There is a hack in our udev and kmod ebuilds that makes it possible to
> > >> > build the static libraries, but I think we should remove that hack since
> > >> > upstream bans building them.
> >
> > Thanks for the clarification - that makes sense.
> >
> > >> Anyway I volunteered Federico to sort out this mess and he got that part
> > >> more or less done.
> > >>
> >
> > If you're willing to do the work I think the teams should be willing
> > to allow you to support the necessary changes.  That is, assuming that
> > the changes aren't so intrusive that they create a real potential for
>
> If only people were that keen to fix the core issue. That is, to fix
> static linking on Linux and make it useful without two batches of hacks
> on top of it.
 
 I wouldn't have put it this way, but yes, I have to agree with mgorny
 here. the real fix is in binutils.
 It needs to be fixed to support static linking and visibility
 correctly.

 William