On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Your basic problem is that you have static and static-libs in USE. When >> applied to lvm, a whole bunch of blockers kick in and you get what you >> got. So take them out of USE. >> >> USE="static static-libs" has it's uses, it's great for building rescue >> disks, busybox and maybe some disk repair utils, but makes very little >> sense on a regular workstation. If you break your workstation, you'll >> boot off a rescue disk and use the tools on it to fix your install, so >> you don't need it on the main system. >> >> There is nothing wrong with your eudev. >> lvm2 is bitching about blockers between lvm2 built with "USE=static" and >> udev - there's some incompatibility there and the ebuild knows about them >> >> > > I went through the package.use file and commented out the static and > static-libs stuff. It seems happy but thing is, when I put them there, > they were needed for some reason. Actually, all the parts I found had > the output of where emerge said those were needed. Maybe the reason > they were needed then has changed and they are no longer needed. I hope > anyway. ;-)
I know there were some guides for doing LVM root that used to advise building stuff statically, probably because of some problem with genkernel. With a modern initramfs (dracut, and possible recent genkernel), shared libs work just as well, so there should be no need.
