On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:22:29AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: > On 01/08/13 04:03, William Hubbs wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 07:42:26PM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > >> As both a member of base-system, and the lvm2 maintainer, I'm going to > >> go and look at fixing them, because I'd prefer to keep them available as > >> static builds. > > > > Robin, > > > > I'm curious what the use case for keeping them as static builds is? I > > would rather see that support dropped as well. > > > > Udev and kmod upstream do not support static builds so I want > > to drop that support from our ebuilds. > > I started fixing that in kmod and got something else more pressing to > do, today I'll spend the whole day trying to get that in shape. > > Help welcome obviously. > > As said before using correct C namespacing isn't rocket science. > > (obviously when you start seeing unchecked mallocs and reallocs in > library code you might shiver a bit... but that can be fixed later as well)
I would rather not carry distro-specific patches forever to support something like this, so please forward your patches upstream. Thanks, William
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