On 01/02/10 22:11, Heiko Baums wrote:
Hi,
I had this issue only twice by now, but I think this is a general problem.
In the recent times libraries in the repos are only built dynamically while the statical versions are disabled.
This can lead to several problems if someone needs to compile a program and needs to link statically against a library. This is not possible with only dynamical libraries. So people are not able to compile their programs unless they rebuild the necessay libraries from ABS.
This is much worse with AUR packages which are compiled and installed by several other people.
This issue was at least in freetype2 and is now in libjpeg. In freetype2 this was fixed. I hope in libjpeg this will also be fixed.
See these feature requests: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11016 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18106
I could file such a feature request for every single package I find, but I think this should be a general rule to build libraries not only dynamically but also statically. This would avoid breakages of other packages even if AUR is unofficial and save time. And it doesn't take much disk space because it's usually only a small additional file.
I disagree. Static libraries generally suck and hide rebuilds needed for security issues. So unless something specifically needs the static library, I think it should be removed. Allan