On 29/07/13 23:57, Pacho Ramos wrote:
Hello
As discussed at:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478476
Upstream is dropping static libs from udev and, then, sys-apps/udev is
currently reverting that commit downstream (even if upstream says some
problems could appear in the future as nobody is taking care of static
stuff there).
Grepping in the tree, looks like only some old genkernel versions are
depending on it. Apart of that, what is requiring static libs in
cryptsetup and lvm2?
Thanks a lot
cryptsetup upstream installed minimal Gentoo setup and tested our
handling of 'static' and was disappointed finding them broken
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438998 - cryptsetup static+pcre
fails
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468400 - cryptsetup
static+selinux fails
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472692 - cryptsetup static+ssl fails
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462908 - lvm2 static-libs
missing library
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467204 - lvm2 static USE flag
missing proper description, yes this is minor
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370217 - lvm2 fails to build due
to missing -lrt, likely related to linking against libudev, yes the
feature we are discussing to be dropped has been completely broken for ages
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439414 - lvm2 static+selinux fails
So we are not talking about removing anything that works, but something
users get hit by reading outdated guides that instruct them to enable
USE=static
+1 for punting broken features
