Re: [arch-general] static libraries in packages

2014-05-15 Thread Sri Krishna
This may not be the best place to ask... But what exactly is the problem with mariadb shipping with static libs? On 14-May-2014 8:53 PM, Doug Newgard scim...@archlinux.info wrote: On 2014-05-14 06:51, Christian Hesse wrote: Antonio Rojas nqn1976l...@gmail.com on Wed, 2014/05/14 11:51:

[arch-general] static libraries in packages

2014-05-14 Thread Christian Hesse
Hello everybody, I just opened a bug report about libmariadbclient package shipping with static libraries [0]. Taking a look at my libs dir I found some more... # ll /usr/lib/*.a | wc -l 210 Any reason packages start shipping static libraries again? Or is there any build system with wrong

Re: [arch-general] static libraries in packages

2014-05-14 Thread Doug Newgard
On 2014-05-14 03:23, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, I just opened a bug report about libmariadbclient package shipping with static libraries [0]. Taking a look at my libs dir I found some more... # ll /usr/lib/*.a | wc -l 210 Any reason packages start shipping static libraries

Re: [arch-general] static libraries in packages

2014-05-14 Thread Christian Hesse
Doug Newgard scim...@archlinux.info on Wed, 2014/05/14 03:38: On 2014-05-14 03:23, Christian Hesse wrote: Hello everybody, I just opened a bug report about libmariadbclient package shipping with static libraries [0]. Taking a look at my libs dir I found some more... # ll

Re: [arch-general] static libraries in packages

2014-05-14 Thread Antonio Rojas
Christian Hesse wrote: I think gcc, glibc, llvm and friends are ok. But zlib, mupdf, mysql/mariadb and some others should go away. There was a to-do list to cleanup all static libs, so all remaining ones are there for a reason. Check the changelogs for the specific reasons for each package,

Re: [arch-general] static libraries in packages

2014-05-14 Thread Christian Hesse
Antonio Rojas nqn1976l...@gmail.com on Wed, 2014/05/14 11:51: Christian Hesse wrote: I think gcc, glibc, llvm and friends are ok. But zlib, mupdf, mysql/mariadb and some others should go away. There was a to-do list to cleanup all static libs, so all remaining ones are there for a

Re: [arch-general] static libraries in packages

2014-05-14 Thread Timothée Ravier
On 14/05/2014 13:51, Christian Hesse wrote: Is it possible to fix binutils testsuite? Remember the security flaws in zlib? Does anybody know what package has been built against static zlib?

Re: [arch-general] static libraries in packages

2014-05-14 Thread Doug Newgard
On 2014-05-14 06:51, Christian Hesse wrote: Antonio Rojas nqn1976l...@gmail.com on Wed, 2014/05/14 11:51: Christian Hesse wrote: I think gcc, glibc, llvm and friends are ok. But zlib, mupdf, mysql/mariadb and some others should go away. There was a to-do list to cleanup all static libs, so