On 2014-03-04, eroen <er...@falcon.eroen.eu> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:35:30 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why isn't there a static or mutlilib libtcl.so? >> >> When I want to build a static binary that uses libtcl, I have to build >> my own private copy of libtcl? >> > > I don't know about a static one, but versions since > dev-lang/tcl-8.5.15-r1 are multilib-enabled through the abi_x86_64 use > flag (or the related ABI_X86 use_expand) in testing arches. > > Unfortunately, this capability is presently difficult to leverage on > stable arches,
After some further googling and reading of Changelogs, that's pretty much what I had surmised. > particularly because the dependency on multilib zlib which > (indirectly through blockers) turns this into an all-or-nothing > affair unless you can live without multilib variants of the other > libraries that have until now been provided by the > emul-linux-x86-baselibs package. > > For your requirements, I would suggest you rather build tcl yourself > for your development and leave the gentoo packaged version for use > with other packages that use it. OK, thanks for confirming that I wasn't missing something obvious. :) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! HAIR TONICS, please!! at gmail.com