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On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:54:15PM +0200, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote: |
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> > Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package |
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> > supports it? |
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> > It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo |
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> > policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug? |
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> A little remark. |
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> For CMake controlled buildsystem (as you're coming here from latest dev- |
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> games/simgear), there's no automatic way of building both static and shared |
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> libs (simgear allows to choose just one). |
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> This is why I removed static libs support that you proposed for dev- |
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> games/simgear (similar to ruby eclass abi handling - manually calling phases |
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> twice to build package 1st as shared, 2nd time as static). |
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> This is what I called "not worth the effort" in private discussion with you, |
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> not quite "I don't care for static libs" :) |
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Guessing in the worst case, you can do a double compile to get around |
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this, no? And yes, that's freaking horrible, just verifying cmake |
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isn't doing something special that blocks it. |
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Is upstream doing anything about this, or is it not on their |
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radar/list-of-things-they-care-about ? |
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~harring |