Message-ID: <00f37776d7549deacc0beb6db4a7e1ad8a5fb6cc.camel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RFC on -static subpackages and being more static-linking
 friendly
From: maxice8 <thinkabit.ukim@gmail.com>
To: Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev>, ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 19:02:28 -0300
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On Sun, 2021-01-17 at 22:51 +0100, Rasmus Thomsen wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-01-16 at 03:28 -0300, maxice8 wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > My proposals are:
> > 
> > 1. Remove -static subpackages and move the static library to -dev,
> > if
> > backwards compat is a concern we can make `-dev` provides= and
> > replaces= `-static` too.
> 
> +1 on that. We should also trace dependencies for static libs via
> `Requires.Private` to make sure we pull in the right pc:* packages.
> 

Good news is that is already done via --print-requires-private, see
abuild.in[1].

> > 2. Avoid using --disable-static or removing the static library with
> > 'rm' and respect the upstream decision to build it by default or 
> 
> IMHO we should just enable static libs for packages where it's not
> too
> expensive so users don't have to make a Gitlab issue for when they
> need
> static libs too often.
> 

I have no interest in hunting down whichever packages are expensive or
not to enable static libraries, I prefer to wait for them to make a
GitLab issue or ask for it on IRC (should be friendly enough, everyone
can hop on IRC via a webclient and just ask for it).

That said if someone wants to go through the process of quantifying
`expensive` and enabling on those that do not qualify as `expensive`,
go for it.

At the most **extreme** I would encourage enabling static libraries by
making `--disable-static` and equivalents on other build-systems a
`MINOR` policy violation in atools.

> Regards,
> 
> Rasmus Thomsen
> 
> > Regards
> > Leo
> > 
> 

[1]:
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/abuild/-/blob/master/abuild.in#L1586