[lm-sensors] Skip building of the static libsensors

[lm-sensors] Skip building of the static libsensors

[Jean Delvare]

Hi all,

OpenSuse is apparently getting rid of all static libraries. I tend to
agree, static libraries are almost always the wrong thing to do (think
bug fixes and maintenance updates).

In order to help, I have just modified the libsensors build system to
make it possible to skip the static library. It is more efficient than
letting it build and then just not installing it. If you want to skip
building of the static library, all you have to do is change:

BUILD_STATIC_LIB := 1

to

BUILD_STATIC_LIB := 0

in the main Makefile. Or alternatively, build with:

make BUILD_STATIC_LIB=0

(Then don't forget to also pass this parameter to "make install".)

I am curious what the policy of other distributions is. If nobody is
interested in the static library then maybe it would make sense to
change the default to 0?

-- 
Jean Delvare

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Re: [lm-sensors] Skip building of the static libsensors

[Hans de Goede]

On 04/20/2009 11:22 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> OpenSuse is apparently getting rid of all static libraries. I tend to
> agree, static libraries are almost always the wrong thing to do (think
> bug fixes and maintenance updates).
>
> In order to help, I have just modified the libsensors build system to
> make it possible to skip the static library. It is more efficient than
> letting it build and then just not installing it. If you want to skip
> building of the static library, all you have to do is change:
>
> BUILD_STATIC_LIB := 1
>
> to
>
> BUILD_STATIC_LIB := 0
>
> in the main Makefile. Or alternatively, build with:
>
> make BUILD_STATIC_LIB=0
>
> (Then don't forget to also pass this parameter to "make install".)
>
> I am curious what the policy of other distributions is. If nobody is
> interested in the static library then maybe it would make sense to
> change the default to 0?
>

We've long gotten rid of 99% of all static libs in Fedora. The few
remaining static libs are a left over from when we used static binaries
in the initrd, now a days even the initrd uses dynamic linking in Fedora.

So I'm all for making the default 0.

Regards,

Hans

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Re: [lm-sensors] Skip building of the static libsensors

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:22:59AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> OpenSuse is apparently getting rid of all static libraries. I tend to
> agree, static libraries are almost always the wrong thing to do (think
> bug fixes and maintenance updates).
> 
> In order to help, I have just modified the libsensors build system to
> make it possible to skip the static library. It is more efficient than
> letting it build and then just not installing it. If you want to skip
> building of the static library, all you have to do is change:
> 
> BUILD_STATIC_LIB := 1
> 
> to
> 
> BUILD_STATIC_LIB := 0
> 
> in the main Makefile. Or alternatively, build with:
> 
> make BUILD_STATIC_LIB=0
> 
> (Then don't forget to also pass this parameter to "make install".)
> 
> I am curious what the policy of other distributions is. If nobody is
> interested in the static library then maybe it would make sense to
> change the default to 0?
> 

Debian still ships both shared and static libraries, but all packages
must link to the shared library. static libraries are reserved for local
use.

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Aurelien Jarno	                        GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

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