On 23-10-09 10:36, Phil Blundell wrote:
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:23 +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
One thing that pops back into my mind is to move .a files into a -static
package? People that want to link statically can pick their .a files.
Yes, I think someone else proposed this a few weeks ago but it doesn't
seem to have happened. Given that static linking is pretty much a
minority pursuit nowadays (excepting libc_noshared.a) this sounds like a
fine idea.
Stripping .a files with the default options will effectively destroy
them so the current state of affairs is definitely silly. If you are
going to do that then you might as well just delete the files: they are
no use for anything after stripping.
An alternative (or an addition) to the -static packaging would be to
arrange for .a files (and .o files, I guess) to be stripped with "strip
--strip-debug" (or perhaps --strip-unneeded). This should leave enough
symbol data in the files for them to remain usable.
Something like this (but without the mailer induced linewrapping)?
diff --git a/classes/package.bbclass b/classes/package.bbclass
index 046351a..2bf55e3 100644
--- a/classes/package.bbclass
+++ b/classes/package.bbclass
@@ -183,6 +183,9 @@ def runstrip(file, d):
extraflags = "--remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note
--strip-unneeded"
elif "shared" in result or "executable" in result:
extraflags = "--remove-section=.comment --remove-section=.note"
+ elif file.endswith(".a")::
+ extraflags = "--remove-section=.comment --strip-debug"
+
bb.mkdirhier(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file), ".debug"))
debugfile=os.path.join(os.path.dirname(file), ".debug",
os.path.basename(file))
diff --git a/conf/bitbake.conf b/conf/bitbake.conf
index 7426095..6c1cc06 100644
--- a/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ SOLIBSDEV_darwin = ".dylib"
SOLIBSDEV_darwin8 = ".dylib"
SOLIBSDEV_darwin9 = ".dylib"
-PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg ${PN} ${PN}-doc ${PN}-dev ${PN}-locale"
+PACKAGES = "${PN}-dbg ${PN} ${PN}-doc ${PN}-static ${PN}-dev ${PN}-locale"
#enable this when bitbake is upgraded to cope with ++ values in the field
PACKAGES_DYNAMIC = "${PN}-locale-*"
FILES = ""
@@ -225,9 +225,11 @@ FILES_${PN}-doc = "${docdir} ${mandir} ${infodir}
${datadir}/gtk-doc \
${datadir}/gnome/help"
SECTION_${PN}-doc = "doc"
+FILES_${PN}-static = "${libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.a"
+
FILES_${PN}-dev = "${includedir} ${libdir}/lib*${SOLIBSDEV}
${libdir}/*.la \
- ${libdir}/*.a ${libdir}/*.o ${libdir}/pkgconfig \
- ${base_libdir}/*.a ${base_libdir}/*.o
${datadir}/aclocal ${datadir}/pkgconfig"
+ ${libdir}/*.o ${libdir}/pkgconfig \
+ ${base_libdir}/*.o ${datadir}/aclocal ${datadir}/pkgconfig"
SECTION_${PN}-dev = "devel"
ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN}-dev = "1"
RDEPENDS_${PN}-dev = "${PN} (= ${EXTENDPV})"
regards,
Koen
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