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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.