Current installation of sci-libs/cfitsio-4.2.0 compiles but the removes libcfitsio.a static library during the installation by the following line in ebuild function multilib_src_install_all() { ..... # Remove static libs find "${ED}" -name '*.a' -delete || die } At least in my case, static library is required to compile a third party astrophysics software ( https://healpix.sourceforge.io ) against system cfitsio. Could this be optionally controlled by USE='static-libs' USE flag that many other library packages have ? This issue was raised back in 2008 in bug #224225, which was marked as resolved by restoring static libraries in cfitsio installation. However they disappeared again since.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d9b4acd2c75c45f15f1bd5d39be5ef6f76293ffd commit d9b4acd2c75c45f15f1bd5d39be5ef6f76293ffd Author: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: Wed Jun 19 06:28:03 2024 +0200 Commit: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> CommitDate: Wed Jun 19 06:28:03 2024 +0200 sci-libs/cfitsio: Bump to 4.4.1 Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> sci-libs/cfitsio/Manifest | 1 + sci-libs/cfitsio/{cfitsio-4.4.0.ebuild => cfitsio-4.4.1.ebuild} | 0 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
