Bug 355899

Summary:	sys-libs/glibc: installs useless libbsd.a static library
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Kevin McCarthy (RETIRED) <signals>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Kevin McCarthy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-02-21 19:25:23 UTC

sys-libs/glibc installs libbsd.a in the standard libdir. It is a symbolic link to libbsd-compat.a This conflicts with the freedesktop libbsd (see bug #354271). Inspecting the glibc-provided one gives this:

% nm /usr/lib64/libbsd.a

dummy.o:
0000000000000000 T __dummy__

It would appear that this file is useless; there are no symbols. Since there now exists an ebuild for the freedesktop version, which does contain quite a few implementations of BSD-only functions, I think glibc should not install the libbsd.a link, and anything that needs to link against libbsd can require dev-libs/libbsd, which is more likely to work than the glibc provided one, anyway. 


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2011-02-22 03:22:54 UTC

please dont go assigning bugs you arent responsible for

i'm not dropping libbsd-compat.a, but libbsd.a is a Gentoo-specific artifact

http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.5-r4.ebuild?r1=1.18&r2=1.19
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.5.1.ebuild?r1=1.7&r2=1.8
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/glibc-2.2.5-r10.ebuild?r1=1.8&r2=1.9
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/src_install.eblit?r1=1.10&r2=1.11
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/src_install-2.6.eblit?r1=1.2&r2=1.3
http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-libs/glibc/files/eblits/src_install-2.11.2.eblit?r1=1.1&r2=1.2

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2013-12-19 08:16:32 UTC

fyi, upstream glibc is punting libbsd-compat.a now too, so it'll be gone starting in glibc-2.19