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From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
To: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] util-linux: Remove static libraries from -dev packages
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:00:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348610431.1335.11.camel@x121e.pbcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348610357.2853.5.camel@lenny>

On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 17:59 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 13:54 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> > Fixes the QA warnings:
> > 
> > WARNING: QA Issue: non -staticdev package contains static .a library: util-linux-libblkid-dev path '/work/mips32el-oe-linux/util-linux/2.21.2-r3micro3/packages-split/util-linux-libblkid-dev/lib/libblkid.a'
> > WARNING: QA Issue: non -staticdev package contains static .a library: util-linux-libuuid-dev path '/work/mips32el-oe-linux/util-linux/2.21.2-r3micro3/packages-split/util-linux-libuuid-dev/lib/libuuid.a'
> 
> > -FILES_util-linux-libblkid-dev = "${base_libdir}/libblkid.so ${base_libdir}/libblkid.a ${base_libdir}/libblkid.la ${includedir}/blkid ${libdir}/pkgconfig/blkid.pc"
> > +FILES_util-linux-libblkid-dev = "${base_libdir}/libblkid.so ${base_libdir}/libblkid.la ${includedir}/blkid ${libdir}/pkgconfig/blkid.pc"
> 
> Wouldn't EXTRA_OECONF += " --disable-static" be better?

That'd be inconsistent with other packages, since we do generally build
and ship the static libraries.  Having a big switch to turn off static
libraries globally seems like a fine plan, but I can't see any obvious
reason why the util-linux ones are any more useless than the rest.

p.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-25 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-25 12:54 [PATCH] util-linux: Remove static libraries from -dev packages Phil Blundell
2012-09-25 21:59 ` Colin Walters
2012-09-25 22:00   ` Phil Blundell [this message]
2012-09-25 22:11     ` Colin Walters
2012-09-26  8:49       ` Richard Purdie
2012-09-26  9:28         ` Phil Blundell
2012-09-26 14:05           ` Richard Purdie
2012-09-30 16:22             ` Phil Blundell
2012-09-26 14:50       ` Mark Hatle
2012-09-27 15:42 ` Saul Wold

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