Re: Revert "package bbclass: strip static libs as well"

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

On 24-10-09 00:31, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>> On Friday 23 October 2009 13:07:06 Stanislav Brabec wrote:
>
>>> I think that the logic should be:
>>>
>>> libfoo.a exists and libfoo.so exists =>  put .a to -static.
>>>
>>> libfoo.a exists and libfoo.so does not exist =>  put .a to -dev.
>>>
>>> This logic will work as most users expect and will need no exception for
>>> glibc.
>>
>> This will add even more python code to package.bbclass and can not be realized
>> with a FILES_* change. I would prefer a stupid QA check for that as I don't
>> expect this to happen on many packages.
>
> That it will happen for all packages that don't provide shared library.
> These packages may end by broken -dev package with just the
> *.a =>  -static rule.

Actually it's /lib/*.a,/usr/lib/*.a -> static, which means...


> I am not sure, how many such packages exist in the tree, but here is a
> list of files in my work directory that would need special care:

... becomes a bit smaller:


> alsa-oss-1.0.17-r0: /usr/lib/libossredir.a
> binutils-2.18-r8.1: /usr/lib/libiberty.a
> bison-2.3-r0: /usr/lib/liby.a
> bridge-utils-1.4-r0: /usr/lib/libbridge.a

> flex-2.5.31-r4: /usr/lib/libfl.a

> gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/libstdc++_pic.a
> gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/libssp_nonshared.a

> gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/libsupc++.a
> gdb-7.0-r0: /usr/lib/libbfd.a
> gdb-7.0-r0: /usr/lib/libopcodes.a
> gdb-7.0-r0: /usr/lib/libiberty.a
> glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a
> glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libmcheck.a
> glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libg.a
> glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libbsd-compat.a
> glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libieee.a
> glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libpthread_nonshared.a
> libassuan-0.6.9-r0: /usr/lib/libassuan.a
> libatomics-ops-1.2-r2: /usr/lib/libatomic_ops_gpl.a
> libatomics-ops-1.2-r2: /usr/lib/libatomic_ops.a
> libsdl-x11-1.2.11-r8: /usr/lib/libSDLmain.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmysys.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libdbug.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libvio.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libheap.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmerge.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libnisam.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmysqld.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmyisam.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmyisammrg.a
> mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmystrings.a
> orbit2-2.14.17-r0: /usr/lib/libname-server-2.a

> tcl-8.4.19-r2: /usr/lib/libtclstub8.4.a
> tk-8.4.19-r0: /usr/lib/libtkstub8.4.a

I would be happy to take special care of the above recipe in my fixup 
branch. Do we all agree that the above .a files need to go into -dev 
packages? If so I'll add something like FILES_${PN}-static = "" to the 
affected recipes


And these wouldn't need special handling:

 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libnss.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libnssutil.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: 
/usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libunicharutil_external_s.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: 
/usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libembed_base_standalone.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libsoftokn.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libssl.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libembed_base_s.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libcrmf.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libsmime.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libxpcomglue_s.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libmozreg_s.a
 > firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libxpcomglue.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib64/libiberty.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libgfortran.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libssp.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libiberty.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libstdc++_pic.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libssp_nonshared.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libsupc++.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libstdc++.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcc.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcc_eh.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgfortranbegin.a
 > gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcov.a
 > perl-5.8.8-r28: /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
 > python-2.6.1-ml8.0: /usr/lib/python2.6/config/libpython2.6.a
 > tcl-native-8.4.19-r2: 
/OE/build/tmp/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/libtclstub8.4.a
 > tk-native-8.4.19-r0: 
/OE/build/tmp/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/libtkstub8.4.a
 > gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcc.a
 > gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcc_eh.a
 > gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: 
/usr/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgfortranbegin.a
 > gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcov.a

regards,

Koen

> Found by this bash command:
> find */*/image -name '*.a' | fgrep -v .debug | while read ; do if ! test -f "${REPLY%.a}.so" ; then PKG=$REPLY ; PKG=${PKG#*/} ; PKG=${PKG%%/*} ; echo $PKG: ${REPLY#*/image} ; fi ; done
>
>
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