On Sat, 2017-10-28 at 19:32 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
> > On Sat, 2017-10-28 at 11:52 +0200, NicP wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Just finished LFS 8.1 systemd stable version. I noticed 4 dangling
> > > symlinks pointing to the /tools directory :
> > > /usr/lib/{libuuid.a,libmount.a,libblkid.a,liblzma.a} -> /tools/lib/
> > >
> > > These links should also be removed in section 6.72 «Cleaning up» of the
> > > book.
> > >
> > > This may break some builds in BLFS. For instance Serf-1.3.9 does not
> > > build if the broken link libblkid.a is present (there was a thread in
> > > blfs-dev about that in september).
> > >
> > > Best regards.
> > > --
> > > NicP
> >
> > I can confirm that serf did not build for me either without the static
> > libraries.
> > I have a comment in my build script (16th Sept) stating that serf will not
> > build without static libs from util-linux. This was my Gnome 3.26.0 build.
> > Prior to this point, serf didn't need those static libs.
> > As to the thread in blfs-dev, Christoph mentioned that he rebuild util-linux
> > with --disable-static, and then rebuilt serf-1.3.9 with no complaints.
> > A rebuild of util-linux would not have removed the previously build static
> > libs?
> >
> > On a similar note, I also build static libs for popt as efivar (not in BLFS
> > book)
> > requires these.
> >
> > So the question is, was the serf build issue due to the dangling symlinks
> > bits
> > or does it really require the static libs?
>
> I built serf-1.3.9 a week ago without complaint. I do not have the .a
> files referenced above.
>
> They should never have been installed in /usr/lib. How did they get
> there? We pass --disable-static in the build instructions for util-linux,
> e2fsprogs, and xz, which are th eonly places that referece those libraries.
>
> -- Bruce
>
They come from the '6.6. Creating Essential Files and Symlinks' 8.1-systemd
version.
for lib in blkid lzma mount uuid
do
ln -sv /tools/lib/lib$lib.{a,so*} /usr/lib
sed 's/tools/usr/' /tools/lib/lib${lib}.la > /usr/lib/lib${lib}.la
done
It's not present in the Sysvinit version.
Wayne.
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