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Bug 325443

Summary: dev-libs/libxml2 add USE=static-libs support
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) <mr_bones_>
Component: [OLD] LibraryAssignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Attachments: patch to add USE=static-libs support to libxml2

Description Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-25 04:03:56 UTC
add USE=static-libs support to dev-libs/libxml2 with a simple patch.
Comment 1 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-06-25 04:04:55 UTC
Created attachment 236461 [details, diff]
patch to add USE=static-libs support to libxml2
Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-07-19 10:49:57 UTC
We don't remove .la files until all or a sufficient amount of  libs depending on it removed theirs. Otherwise this will result in big .la files breakage (yes there is lafilefixer, but I don't like that solution).
Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-07-19 18:30:56 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> We don't remove .la files until all or a sufficient amount of  libs depending
> on it removed theirs. Otherwise this will result in big .la files breakage (yes
> there is lafilefixer, but I don't like that solution).
> 

At least, looks like future portage versions will probably improve this situation:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=271129#c12
Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2011-06-13 14:43:42 UTC
What is the status of this now? If we are not going to apply this maybe we should close as wontfix then :-/
Comment 5 Nirbheek Chauhan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-06-15 07:40:52 UTC
The team's position on .la files has changed. Maybe we should do this with the next bump.
Comment 6 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-08-18 08:15:23 UTC
Was re-filed and fixed as bug #378249

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 378249 ***