Am Sonntag 29 April 2007 12:36 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:54:12 +0200 > > "Jakub Moc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/29/07, Roman Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm now using gentoo with EXTRA_ECONF="--disable-static" for a > > > while and it seems quite stable. Sometimes I encounter a package > > > that won't build with this setting, but that's a rare occasion. At > > > the moment this packages are for me: > > > dev-libs/libpcre > > > > Disabling static libs in libpcre makes sys-apps/grep w/ USE=pcre bomb > > out on compile... Just an example why you should always install both > > of them. > > No, that's an example of why you should sometimes install both.
These are 5 packages out of 845 on my system. For those with version number it is only a compile time error, when make errornously tries to build a static target. Those without number are needed static by another package or don't like --disable-static (sys-apps/ed). That leaves 2 out of 845. So I'm with Ciaran here: It works for almost all packages and makes at least some difference. Maybe enough to (really) give the users the choice (without the ugly EXTRA_ECONF-hack)? Those links Jakub posted are interesting, but I don't find an explanation why this decission was made. Maybe you have a link to that discussion too?
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