Bug 936040

Summary:	dev-util/bcc requires libbpf[static-libs] for no good reason
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Holger Hoffstätte <holger>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrick McLean <chutzpah>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	chutzpah, kocelfc, zmedico
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939353
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Description Holger Hoffstätte 2024-07-14 12:06:26 UTC

bcc is the only package requiring libbpf[static-libs], but this is likely some legacy hack from ~2019 long before libbpf-1.0. Everything in bcc dynamically links against libbpf.so (e.g. libbcc.so, libbcc_bpf.so) and building/running bcc without static libbpf.a works just fine.

Please consider removing this constraint from the libbpf dependency for the next update.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. modify bcc ebuild to NOT require libbpf[static-libs] but only libbpf:=
2. rebuild libbpf with USE=-static-libs
3. rebuild & test bcc
Actual Results:  
Everything still works.

Comment 1 Patrick McLean gentoo-dev

2024-09-10 19:03:24 UTC

Fixed in 0.31.0 via https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=21eaf15549cde98cadfb8c6dc45ae762b0eeb383