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Renat Golubchyk wrote: |
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> As you said, you really are confused. :-) Maybe I wasn't clear enough. |
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> Anyway, I've written a program, and I need it as a statically linked |
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> binary. In order to link statically the linker (ld) needs all the used |
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> libraries in static form, i.e. as a .a and not as a .so file. Since |
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> portage does not build static libraries by default I need a way to tell |
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> portage that I really do want to have .a files built. |
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> I do _not_ want to create a Gentoo package, at least not at this stage |
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> of development. |
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Still confused :o( |
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Portage is for building Gentoo packages -- if you don't want to build a |
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Gentoo package then why is portage involved? You can compile and link |
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your program with any flags you want to, so as to get static binaries. |
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