[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] qwt: compile as a static lib if QT_SHARED is not selected

[Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>]

On 25/01/2015 23:20, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:
> 
>  > Dear Richard Genoud,
>  > On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 11:17:28 +0100, Richard Genoud wrote:
>  >> If Qt is compile as a static library, there's no point compiling qwt as
>  >> a shared library, otherwise, we will have a huge qwt lib and a huge Qt
>  >> application.
>  >> 
>  >> Signed-off-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
>>>
>  >> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT_SHARED),y)
>  >> +	QWT_CONFIG += -e 's/^.*QWT_CONFIG.*QwtDll.*$$/QWT_CONFIG += QwtDll/'
>  >> +else
>  >> +	QWT_CONFIG += -e 's/^.*QWT_CONFIG.*QwtDll.*$$/\# QWT_CONFIG += QwtDll/'
>  >> +endif
> 
>  > I think we should get rid of BR2_PACKAGE_QT_SHARED completely, and use
>  > BR2_STATIC_LIBS here instead.
> 
> I agree that it would be cleaner, but the reason the explicit QT_SHARED
> stuff was added was afaik a lot of systems only needed Qt in a single
> application / that application only used a subset of the Qt
> functionality, so having a static libQt while everything else was shared
> was quite a big win in size / startup time.

yes, that's exactly my case. I've got one single Qt application, and Qt
is quite huge, so making it static saves a lot of space.
I didn't trying to compile with BR2_STATIC_LIBS=y, but I guess that my
rootfs will be much bigger.


> It does complicate LGPL compliance and I don't know if the disk space
> concerns are as big these days though.
> 
Hum... I didn't think about the static vs dynamic LGPL compliance. I'll
have to check that.
And for disk space concern, I must admit that I haven't got much space (
60Mio for the rootfs, and the Qt application takes 10Mio


regards,
Richard