Bug 247770 – Make pinentry support USE=static

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2008-11-20 15:26:44 UTC]

Now that we have a static gpg-2, we'd need a static
pinentry because gpg-2 depends on gpg-agent which
in turn depends on a pinentry program. So, to have
a completely static gpg-2 environment, we need a
static pinentry as well :)

[Comment 1 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2008-11-20 15:27:50 UTC]

See "diff -u /usr/portage/app-crypt/gnupg/gnupg-2.0.9{,-r1}.ebuild" for
information about how gnupg-2.0.9-r1 got added support for USE=static.

[Comment 2 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2008-11-21 18:29:05 UTC]

append-ldflags -static seems to be sufficient for me (x86)...

[Comment 3 Sven Wegener 2009-01-06 21:15:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> append-ldflags -static seems to be sufficient for me (x86)...

I don't think that it's that easy. gtk requires libgtk-x11-2.0 which isn't available as a static library.

[Comment 4 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2009-01-06 23:37:00 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > append-ldflags -static seems to be sufficient for me (x86)...
> 
> I don't think that it's that easy. gtk requires libgtk-x11-2.0 which isn't
> available as a static library.

Well, making USE=static require USE="ncurses -gtk -qt3" would be sufficient
for any use cases where a static gnupg would be required (initrd/initramfs
systems).

[Comment 5 Sven Wegener 2009-01-22 19:18:00 UTC]

Added with pinentry-0.7.5-r1.

[Comment 6 Wolfram Schlich (RETIRED) 2009-01-26 15:21:37 UTC]

thanks, sven!