Bug 458588 – dev-libs/botan - please add USE="static-libs"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Sergey Popov (RETIRED) 2013-02-21 12:59:49 UTC]

Currently dev-libs/botan-1.10.3-r1 install static library unconditionally:

>>> Completed installing botan-1.10.3-r1 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/botan-1.10.3-r1/image/

strip: armv6j-hardfloat-linux-gnueabi-strip --strip-unneeded -R .comment -R .GCC.command.line
   usr/lib/libbotan-1.10.so.0.3
   usr/lib/libbotan-1.10.a
>>> Done.

Please add USE="static-libs" to control this behaviour.

[Comment 1 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2013-03-02 21:57:00 UTC]

Jack: best if you add a parameter to configure script with --disable-static or something similar.

[Comment 2 Thomas Capricelli 2015-09-13 11:38:20 UTC]

Isn't this fixed ?

Tested today, dev-libs/botan-1.10.5 installs with or without the *.a according to USE=static-libs, as expected.

(thanks, by the way)

[Comment 3 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2015-09-13 11:40:42 UTC]

(In reply to Thomas Capricelli from comment #2)
> Isn't this fixed ?
> 
> Tested today, dev-libs/botan-1.10.5 installs with or without the *.a
> according to USE=static-libs, as expected.
> 
> (thanks, by the way)

no, this is request to upstream (assigned) to support this within build, so we don't have to hack the output.

[Comment 4 Jack Lloyd 2016-02-06 19:49:35 UTC]

Sorry for the long delayed response here. Yes a --disable-static option to handle this sounds good reasonable to me.

[Comment 5 Jack Lloyd 2017-09-29 22:36:01 UTC]

Opened upstream issue https://github.com/randombit/botan/issues/1230

[Comment 6 Jack Lloyd 2017-12-01 17:59:51 UTC]

Fixed upstream, --disable-static prevents creation of static library. Now waiting on new release (eta early January).

[Comment 7 Thomas Capricelli 2017-12-01 21:52:01 UTC]

Great, looking forward to it!

[Comment 8 Alon Bar-Lev (RETIRED) 2017-12-01 23:55:05 UTC]

Thanks!