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From: Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] util-linux: Remove static libraries from -dev packages
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:50:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5063163E.5040608@windriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348611089.2853.7.camel@lenny>

On 9/25/12 5:11 PM, 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.

Users are primarily small systems, where static linking may result in a slightly 
smaller system.  (When I say small systems, I'm talking about single application 
embedded systems..)

> For what it's worth in gnome-ostree I do just globally pass
> --disable-static by default.
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-26 15:03 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
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 [this message]
2012-09-27 15:42 ` Saul Wold

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