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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] supporting static-libs
From:       Luca Barbato <lu_zero () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2012-09-22 15:15:01
Message-ID: 505DD5F5.9040305 () gentoo ! org
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On 09/03/2012 10:54 PM, Maciej Mrozowski wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 of August 2012 02:15:40 hasufell wrote:
>> Is there a reason not to support static-libs in an ebuild if the package
>> supports it?
>>
>> It seems some developers don't care about this option. What's the gentoo
>> policy on this? Isn't this actually a bug?
> 
> A little remark.
> For CMake controlled buildsystem (as you're coming here from latest dev-
> games/simgear), there's no automatic way of building both static and shared 
> libs (simgear allows to choose just one).

Complain to cmake devs, hopefully they might come up with a solution.
(the alternative is provide a clean autotools-based build system and ask
upstream to please keep both. Usually works nice to cover all bases and
make all people happy ^^;

lu

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