Re: [CONSOLIDATED PULL 01/20] bitbake.conf: Create staticlibs pacakge for static libraries

[Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com>]

On 06/06/2011 03:50 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 07:55 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Sun, 2011-06-05 at 23:44 -0700, Saul Wold wrote:
>>>   SECTION_${PN}-dev = "devel"
>>>   ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dev = "1"
>>>   RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "${PN} (= ${EXTENDPKGV})"
>>>
>>> +FILES_${PN}-staticlibs = "${libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.a"
>>> +SECTION_${PN}-staticlibs = "devel"
>>> +RDEPENDS_${PN}-staticlibs = "${PN}-dev (= ${EXTENDPV})"
>>
>> This should be ${EXTENDPKGV}, right?
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> It should.
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> I'm also not 100% convinced I like "-staticlibs" vs "-staticdev" as it
> doesn't feel consistent.
>
> The user gets exposed to these at the package manager level and will
> "xxx install xxx-staticX". The end result they'll get will be the
> installation of everything they need for static development (i.e. the
> -dev packages will get pulled in for the headers). This means they don't
> just result in the static libs as there are dependencies there. From the
> user perspective they are therefore packages for static development, not
> just the static libraries...
>
Richard,

I agree that they are for development and that by their nature they have 
a dependency on the Development packages, but they contain libs only, 
not all the development headers or tools, I think its therefore 
mis-leading to call the package staticdev since they do not contain all 
the development bits (they might depend on all the bits).  It's a subtle 
but important distinction.

As was pointed out earlier Fedora packages static libraries in a 
"-static" package, but this had other implications for OE due to -static 
already being in use (for busybox and mplayer), I am not sure that this 
is not a problem for OE-Core, I would need to investigate.  Meego also 
seems to use the Fedora standard with "-static".

I still believe that -staticlibs is a better identifier for these packages.

Sau!

> Cheers,
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> Richard
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