Baho Utot wrote: > Making syslog-ng 3.0.1-6 i686 in Clean Chroot > > gcc -march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -o syslog-ng > main.o libsyslog-ng.a -lrt -lnsl -Wl,-Bstatic -lfl -lglib-2.0 > -levtlog -lssl -lcrypto -lz -lz -lwrap -lcap -lpcre -Wl,-Bdynamic > -ldl > What is -lcap ? > > Is it looking for a static lib cap? > > Yes I just talked about this with Hugo doria syslog-ng needs libcap as static as others libs like glib2 openssl zlib, eventlog, etc... because is compiled in mixed mode So there are important issue here: many deps (that need to be in the [core], small binary VS (the current behaviour) few deps (only glibc), big binary (~2MB) + security issues (if any of static lib is afected and this pkg inst recompiled) + more memory usage (this is very small in these days of course) Also there is an open task for this without attention [#1] [#1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14214 -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D
