On 09/29/2017 03:36 AM, Marty E. Plummer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 07:35:20PM +0000, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:01 PM, Marty E. Plummer >> <hanet...@startmail.com> wrote: >>> arfrever suggests I send a mail here, as there are other packages which >>> may be affected by this issue and perhaps a more generalized fix is >>> required instead of an explicit fix in sys-libs/ncurses and other ebuilds >>> that may require it. >> >> I think the solution here is to remove those overly broad "find >> -delete" statements and replace them with something safer. >> >> Ideally the build system(s) would be patched to not compile static >> libs in the first place. >> >> If that's not possible, perhaps an eclass function could be created to >> safely remove static libs. >> > Honestly I already have a pr up that fixes this particular package's > issue, fairly simple fix https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/5734 > > --- a/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.0-r1.ebuild > +++ b/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.0-r1.ebuild > @@ -241,7 +241,8 @@ multilib_src_install() { > # Provide a link for -lcurses. > ln -sf libncurses$(get_libname) > "${ED}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/libcurses$(get_libname) || die > fi > - use static-libs || find "${ED}"/usr/ -name '*.a' -delete > + # don't delete '*.dll.a', needed for linking #631468 > + use static-libs || find "${ED}"/usr/ -name '*.a' ! -name '*.dll.a' > -delete
In prefix overlay we have this version: use static-libs || find "${ED}"/usr/ -name '*.a' -not -name "*$(get_libname)" -delete /haubi/