Bug 655346 – dev-qt/{designer,qtcore,qtdeclarative,qtgui}:5 install static libraries without USE=static-libs

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2018-05-09 15:20:20 UTC]

Not done installing all yet, but a pattern emerges(!):

karsten ~ # qlist -o dev-qt | grep 5 | grep '\.a$'
/usr/lib/libQt5UiTools.a
/usr/lib/libQt5Bootstrap.a
/usr/lib/libQt5QmlDevTools.a
/usr/lib/libQt5PacketProtocol.a
/usr/lib/libQt5QmlDebug.a
/usr/lib/libQt5EventDispatcherSupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5AccessibilitySupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5FontDatabaseSupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5OpenGLExtensions.a
/usr/lib/libQt5LinuxAccessibilitySupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5PlatformCompositorSupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5ServiceSupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5InputSupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5EglSupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5FbSupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5DeviceDiscoverySupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5EdidSupport.a
/usr/lib/libQt5ThemeSupport.a

[Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 2018-05-10 00:58:39 UTC]

All of these *.a libraries have no corresponding *.so libraries.

The same behavior is in older versions of Qt 5 (e.g. 5.7 or 5.9).

At least some of these libraries are actually used by other packages (e.g. kde-frameworks/kjsembed:5 and kde-frameworks/kross:5 use libQt5UiTools.a).

[Comment 2 Davide Pesavento (RETIRED) 2018-05-10 05:39:49 UTC]

This is expected. These libraries are static only.