On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 16:35:30 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why isn't there a static or mutlilib libtcl.so? > > When I want to build a static binary that uses libtcl, I have to build > my own private copy of libtcl? >
I don't know about a static one, but versions since dev-lang/tcl-8.5.15-r1 are multilib-enabled through the abi_x86_64 use flag (or the related ABI_X86 use_expand) in testing arches. Unfortunately, this capability is presently difficult to leverage on stable arches, particularly because the dependency on multilib zlib which (indirectly through blockers) turns this into an all-or-nothing affair unless you can live without multilib variants of the other libraries that have until now been provided by the emul-linux-x86-baselibs package. For your requirements, I would suggest you rather build tcl yourself for your development and leave the gentoo packaged version for use with other packages that use it. -- eroen
