Bug 686546

Summary:	media-gfx/exiv2-0.27.1: please sanitize wrt. static libs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Rafał Mużyło 2019-05-22 12:20:46 UTC

Currently, exiv2 installs in a somewhat nonsense way, if built with 'xmp' useflag.
It's an upstream shortcoming, yet still should be addressed.

xmp is built as a static lib, that exiv2 links to during build, then that static lib is still installed, but without any of its headers, making it somewhat redundant (unless something in the tree actually uses that static lib directly).

If nothing is the tree uses the static lib directly, is there a point of installing it, especially without its headers ?

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2019-06-23 17:02:35 UTC

This is when it got introduced: https://dev.exiv2.org/issues/0001119

Ideally should be fixed upstream.