El mar, 30-07-2013 a las 11:42 +0300, Samuli Suominen escribió: > On 29/07/13 23:57, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Hello > > > > As discussed at: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478476 > > > > Upstream is dropping static libs from udev and, then, sys-apps/udev is > > currently reverting that commit downstream (even if upstream says some > > problems could appear in the future as nobody is taking care of static > > stuff there). > > > > Grepping in the tree, looks like only some old genkernel versions are > > depending on it. Apart of that, what is requiring static libs in > > cryptsetup and lvm2? > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > cryptsetup upstream installed minimal Gentoo setup and tested our > handling of 'static' and was disappointed finding them broken > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438998 - cryptsetup static+pcre > fails > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468400 - cryptsetup > static+selinux fails > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472692 - cryptsetup static+ssl fails > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462908 - lvm2 static-libs > missing library > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467204 - lvm2 static USE flag > missing proper description, yes this is minor > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370217 - lvm2 fails to build due > to missing -lrt, likely related to linking against libudev, yes the > feature we are discussing to be dropped has been completely broken for ages > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439414 - lvm2 static+selinux fails > > So we are not talking about removing anything that works, but something > users get hit by reading outdated guides that instruct them to enable > USE=static > > +1 for punting broken features > >
We should drop that broken support I guess, but will CC its maintainers here too (they are CCed in bug report already)
