On 09/10/14 13:16, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote:
On 09/09/2014 02:38 PM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2014 22:05:45 -0700
Brian Dolbec <[email protected]> wrote:
This code had portage bin path hard coded. That path needed to be
changed for a new portage ebuild and install system.
After testing the origianl code and comparing it with some updated
code supplied by Douglas Freed. It turned out both code chunks
resulted in nothing being cleaned.
Tested and confirmed by zero_chaos.
I have gone over things more and tested the new find command. It does
work on my host system. However, the question remains... DOES this
particular cleaning operation NEED to be performed?
With current the tree snapshot for my testing 20140829. It does not
find anything to clean. BUT, will that remain the same in the future
as pkgs are bumped?
For safety, I'd be inclined to keep the find command (v1 of the
patch) and clean any it does find just in case.
If we truly need to remove these files, I don't think catalyst was ever
the place to do this. We have USE=static and USE=static-libs for a
reason. Randomly removing files from the filesystem was a hack then,
and if we are cleaning this up let's just remove it. If I want to build
things with USE=static or USE=static-libs then catalyst shouldn't be
pointlessly crippling my builds.
v2 means one less horrible hack in catalyst, and one at a time is the
only way will remove all the horror.
-Zero
I just did some testing here. You have to be very careful not to remove
the wrong .a's else you break the toolchain. So I agree, remove the
.a's in the ebuilds switched on USE=statlic-libs, and not in catalyst.
The biggest .a's in stage1 are libpythonXX.a which are 3 to 4 MB, but
the others are like a few hundred K's at most. The gain is a smaller
stage, but the downside is headaches making sure we don't break something.
So, to slim down stage1, see if you can get USE=static-libs in python's
ebuilds and build USE=-static-libs. That itself will reduce that stage
by about 8 MBs which is more than all the "expendable" .a's put together.
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