Bug 891759

Summary:	dev-lang/idris2-0.6.0 installs '.a' files without static-libs USE (LIBARCHIVE-SYSTEM)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Scheme Project <scheme>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	695878
Attachments:	build.log

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2023-01-22 19:31:02 UTC

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2020/07/04/gentoo-tinderbox/

Issue: dev-lang/idris2-0.6.0 installs '.a' files without static-libs USE (LIBARCHIVE-SYSTEM).
Discovered on: amd64 (internal ref: libarchive_tinderbox)

NOTE:
(LIBARCHIVE-SYSTEM) in the summary means that the bug was found on a machine that runs app-alternatives/tar and app-alternatives/cpio with [-gnu,+libarchive] but this bug MAY or MAY NOT BE related to the tar/cpio implementation.
https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/installed-files.html#pg0302.

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2023-01-22 19:31:05 UTC

Created attachment 849045 [details]
build.log

build log and emerge --info

Comment 2 Maciej Barć gentoo-dev

2023-01-23 11:38:23 UTC

Those static libraries are used internally by Idris C compiler backed, when removed they will break a part of Idris2.

See: https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris2/blob/4bedaac81130ed4ccec4329cf633ade7e0372a89/src/Compiler/RefC/CC.idr#L91