On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 18:11 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 23:00 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > > > That'd be inconsistent with other packages, since we do generally build > > and ship the static libraries. Having a big switch to turn off static > > libraries globally seems like a fine plan, but I can't see any obvious > > reason why the util-linux ones are any more useless than the rest. > > Makes sense. I wonder if there are actually any users of the static > libraries. > > For what it's worth in gnome-ostree I do just globally pass > --disable-static by default.
I tested this a while back to see what performance difference it made. The answer was "nothing too significant", I don't have the exact timings handy. I do remember having to exclude sqlite-native from the list since pseudo static links against it. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
