Bug 744871

Summary:	[Future EAPI] Pass --disable-static by default to econf
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	David Seifert <soap>
Component:	PMS/EAPI	Assignee:	PMS/EAPI <pms>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra, lssndrbarbieri, mgorny, pacho, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/637
Whiteboard:	in-eapi-8
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	174380

Description David Seifert gentoo-dev

2020-09-26 20:13:02 UTC

Currently, most libtool using packages tend to build shared AND static libraries by default. Given that the overwhelming majority of packages in Gentoo don't require static libraries (and such static archives aren't supported anyways), we should pass --disable-static to econf iff the ./configure -h shows such an option (similar to how --docdir/--htmldir/--with-sysroot work). This simplifies many small library ebuilds, as these oftentimes only override src_configure to disable static archives.

Additionally, I think we should go a step further and enable passing --enable-shared too (if it appears in ./configure -h). If a configure script has been bootstrapped with

LT_INIT([disable-shared])

then --disable-static has no effect. Only passing --disable-static and --enable-shared wll actually enable shared libraries and disable static libraries in that scenario.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2021-06-13 19:19:00 UTC

The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pms.git/commit/?id=c1d561c12f727bf475d3f6f06009a1c924cbc4a2

commit c1d561c12f727bf475d3f6f06009a1c924cbc4a2
Author:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-05-17 15:45:42 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-06-05 08:55:39 +0000

    EAPI 8: econf adds --disable-static
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/744871
    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>

 eapi-differences.tex |  4 +++-
 pkg-mgr-commands.tex | 18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)