Re: [gentoo-dev] Say no to static libraries!

2005-09-23 Thread Paweł Madej
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 22 September 2005 05:23 am, Ervin Németh wrote: > you can put 'EXTRA_ECONF=--disable-static' into your /etc/make.conf ... -mike Is this safe to use on desktop machine or it is only developers suggestion for testing? I want to know if it could broke my syste

Re: [gentoo-dev] Say no to static libraries!

2005-09-22 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 22 September 2005 05:23 am, Ervin Németh wrote: > * It would break bash, because the ebuild expects a static libcurses. well, yes and no ... if static ncurses is unavailable, the bash ebuild will use the bundled gnutermcap (which sucks hard compared to ncurses) > For automake packa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Say no to static libraries!

2005-09-22 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Thursday 22 September 2005 11:23, Ervin Németh wrote: > But how? > > If I do a "du -hc /usr/lib/lib*.a | tail -n1", it shows 63M. And I > really don't need them. > > Why INSTALL_MASK="*.a" is bad? > > * It would break bash, because the ebuild expects a static libcurses. > > * It would not sa

[gentoo-dev] Say no to static libraries!

2005-09-22 Thread Ervin Németh
But how? If I do a "du -hc /usr/lib/lib*.a | tail -n1", it shows 63M. And I really don't need them. Why INSTALL_MASK="*.a" is bad? * It would break bash, because the ebuild expects a static libcurses. * It would not save compile time. I would really appreciate if gtk+ compiled twice as fast