From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] util-linux: Remove static libraries from -dev packages
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:49:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348649372.8662.90.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348611089.2853.7.camel@lenny>
On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 18:11 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 23:00 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Makes sense. I wonder if there are actually any users of the static
> libraries.
>
> For what it's worth in gnome-ostree I do just globally pass
> --disable-static by default.
I tested this a while back to see what performance difference it made.
The answer was "nothing too significant", I don't have the exact timings
handy. I do remember having to exclude sqlite-native from the list since
pseudo static links against it.
Cheers,
Richard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-26 9:02 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
2012-09-25 22:11 ` Colin Walters
2012-09-26 8:49 ` Richard Purdie [this message]
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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