[gentoo-user] Re: No static or multilib support for libtcl?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-03-04, eroen <eroen@××××××××××××.eu> wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:35:30 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Why isn't there a static or mutlilib libtcl.so?
>>
>> When I want to build a static binary that uses libtcl, I have to build
>> my own private copy of libtcl?
>>
>
> I don't know about a static one, but versions since
> dev-lang/tcl-8.5.15-r1 are multilib-enabled through the abi_x86_64 use
> flag (or the related ABI_X86 use_expand) in testing arches.
>
> Unfortunately, this capability is presently difficult to leverage on
> stable arches,

After some further googling and reading of Changelogs, that's pretty
much what I had surmised.

> particularly because the dependency on multilib zlib which
> (indirectly through blockers) turns this into an all-or-nothing
> affair unless you can live without multilib variants of the other
> libraries that have until now been provided by the
> emul-linux-x86-baselibs package.
>
> For your requirements, I would suggest you rather build tcl yourself
> for your development and leave the gentoo packaged version for use
> with other packages that use it.

OK, thanks for confirming that I wasn't missing something obvious. :)

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