On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 07:36:12PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > Dnia 2013-08-01, o godz. 13:32:28 > Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > Dnia 2013-08-01, o godz. 17:17:35 > > > Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> napisał(a): > > > > > >> On 01/08/13 17:04, William Hubbs wrote: > > >> > There is a hack in our udev and kmod ebuilds that makes it possible to > > >> > build the static libraries, but I think we should remove that hack > > >> > since > > >> > upstream bans building them. > > > > Thanks for the clarification - that makes sense. > > > > >> Anyway I volunteered Federico to sort out this mess and he got that part > > >> more or less done. > > >> > > > > If you're willing to do the work I think the teams should be willing > > to allow you to support the necessary changes. That is, assuming that > > the changes aren't so intrusive that they create a real potential for > > If only people were that keen to fix the core issue. That is, to fix > static linking on Linux and make it useful without two batches of hacks > on top of it. I wouldn't have put it this way, but yes, I have to agree with mgorny here. the real fix is in binutils. It needs to be fixed to support static linking and visibility correctly.
William
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