[arch-general] static libraries in packages

[Christian Hesse]

Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux.info> on Wed, 2014/05/14 03:38:
> On 2014-05-14 03:23, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> > 
> > I just opened a bug report about libmariadbclient package shipping with 
> > static
> > libraries [0]. Taking a look at my libs dir I found some more...
> > 
> > # ll /usr/lib/*.a | wc -l
> > 210
> > 
> > Any reason packages start shipping static libraries again? Or is there 
> > any
> > build system with wrong settings in makepkg.conf?
> > 
> > [0] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/40352
> 
> They were specifically re-enabled in libmariadbclient, not sure why, 
> though.
> 
> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mariadb&id=74ef541c06d70e373ce90dbae2e507185914651f
> 
> I only have 36 on my system, most related to gcc or glibc. What are all 
> of yours?

# pacman -Qoq /usr/lib/*.a | sort | uniq -c
      2 binutils
      1 bison
     36 boost
     24 clang
      1 dialog
      1 e2fsprogs
      1 elfutils
      3 gcc-multilib
     11 glibc
      2 gnu-efi-libs
      1 iproute2
      1 jansson
      1 libbsd
      1 libemu
      1 libgnome-sharp
      4 libmariadbclient
      1 libxp
      4 live-media
     97 llvm
      1 lrzip
      2 mupdf
      1 nss
      1 openobex
      1 orbit2
      1 qt4
      3 qt5-base
      1 qt5-tools
      1 ruby
      1 sdl
      1 tcl
      1 tk
      1 yasm
      1 zlib

I think gcc, glibc, llvm and friends are ok. But zlib, mupdf, mysql/mariadb
and some others should go away.
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