On 04/20/2009 11:22 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > OpenSuse is apparently getting rid of all static libraries. I tend to > agree, static libraries are almost always the wrong thing to do (think > bug fixes and maintenance updates). > > In order to help, I have just modified the libsensors build system to > make it possible to skip the static library. It is more efficient than > letting it build and then just not installing it. If you want to skip > building of the static library, all you have to do is change: > > BUILD_STATIC_LIB := 1 > > to > > BUILD_STATIC_LIB := 0 > > in the main Makefile. Or alternatively, build with: > > make BUILD_STATIC_LIB=0 > > (Then don't forget to also pass this parameter to "make install".) > > I am curious what the policy of other distributions is. If nobody is > interested in the static library then maybe it would make sense to > change the default to 0? > We've long gotten rid of 99% of all static libs in Fedora. The few remaining static libs are a left over from when we used static binaries in the initrd, now a days even the initrd uses dynamic linking in Fedora. So I'm all for making the default 0. Regards, Hans
