From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [80.91.229.12] (helo=lo.gmane.org) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N1GFx-0003M7-PM for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:16:24 +0200 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N1GEs-0004Jj-4P for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:15:14 +0200 Received: from s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([85.145.118.37]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:15:14 +0200 Received: from k.kooi by s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:15:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:14:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200910230504.57681.holger+oe@freyther.de> <200910230930.00314.holger+oe@freyther.de> <200910231023.43911.holger+oe@freyther.de> <1256286976.4529.117.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s55917625.adsl.wanadoo.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090811 Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: <1256286976.4529.117.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> Sender: news X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 80.91.229.12 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: gcho-openembedded-devel@m.gmane.org X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: Revert "package bbclass: strip static libs as well" X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:16:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 23-10-09 10:36, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:23 +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote: >> One thing that pops back into my mind is to move .a files into a -static >> package? People that want to link statically can pick their .a files. > > Yes, I think someone else proposed this a few weeks ago but it doesn't > seem to have happened. Given that static linking is pretty much a > minority pursuit nowadays (excepting libc_noshared.a) this sounds like a > fine idea. > > Stripping .a files with the default options will effectively destroy > them so the current state of affairs is definitely silly. If you are > going to do that then you might as well just delete the files: they are > no use for anything after stripping. > > An alternative (or an addition) to the -static packaging would be to > arrange for .a files (and .o files, I guess) to be stripped with "strip > --strip-debug" (or perhaps --strip-unneeded). This should leave enough > symbol data in the files for them to remain usable. Something like this (but without the mailer induced linewrapping)? diff --git a/classes/package.bbclass b/classes/package.bbclass index 046351a..2bf55e3 100644 --- a/classes/package.bbclass +++ b/classes/package.bbclass @@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ def runstrip(file, d): extraflags = "--remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note --strip-unneeded" elif "shared" in result or "executable" in result: extraflags = "--remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note" + elif file.endswith(".a"):: + extraflags = "--remove-section=.comment --strip-debug" + bb.mkdirhier(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file), ".debug")) debugfile=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file), ".debug", os.path.basename(file)) diff --git a/conf/bitbake.conf b/conf/bitbake.conf index 7426095..6c1cc06 100644 --- a/conf/bitbake.conf +++ b/conf/bitbake.conf @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ SOLIBSDEV_darwin = ".dylib" SOLIBSDEV_darwin8 = ".dylib" SOLIBSDEV_darwin9 = ".dylib" -PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg ${PN} ${PN}-doc ${PN}-dev ${PN}-locale" +PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg ${PN} ${PN}-doc ${PN}-static ${PN}-dev ${PN}-locale" #enable this when bitbake is upgraded to cope with ++ values in the field PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "${PN}-locale-*" FILES = "" @@ -225,9 +225,11 @@ FILES_${PN}-doc = "${docdir} ${mandir} ${infodir} ${datadir}/gtk-doc \ ${datadir}/gnome/help" SECTION_${PN}-doc = "doc" +FILES_${PN}-static = "${libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.a" + FILES_${PN}-dev = "${includedir} ${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV} ${libdir}/*.la \ - ${libdir}/*.a ${libdir}/*.o ${libdir}/pkgconfig \ - ${base_libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.o ${datadir}/aclocal ${datadir}/pkgconfig" + ${libdir}/*.o ${libdir}/pkgconfig \ + ${base_libdir}/*.o ${datadir}/aclocal ${datadir}/pkgconfig" SECTION_${PN}-dev = "devel" ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dev = "1" RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "${PN} (= ${EXTENDPV})" regards, Koen