Bug 623569
| Summary: | RFE: require static library | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora EPEL | Reporter: | Kirby Zhou <kirbyzhou> | ||||
| Component: | lzo | Assignee: | Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | el5 | CC: | cleaver-redhat, huzaifas, steve | ||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2017-04-06 10:27:27 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Kirby Zhou
2010-08-12 07:49:21 UTC
why?, fedora has a policy of using dynamic libs, where ever possible. a lot of libXXX-devel contains a static version of its .so file. I think lzo should do the same. It helps people who want to distribute binarys compiled with lzo. [@djt_10_48 ~]# ll /usr/lib64/*.so | wc -l 224 [@djt_10_48 ~]# ll /usr/lib64/*.a | wc -l 143 Kirby, Huzaifa: * In general, packagers are strongly encouraged not to ship static libs unless a compelling reason exists. As recently pointed out on the devel mailing list, fedora actively discourages shipping static libraries. Choosing to do so is at the packagers discretion. "Shipping" or building? This feels like the type of thing that can be included in an Everything (Fedora) or Optional (EL/EPEL) repository for those who have a use for it, without it being brought in for normal builds, nor impact the default distribution. As an example, "zlib-static" is built and available in the rhel-7-server-optional-rpms channel on EL7. (This really goes for all versions (rawhide/fedora/rhel/epel).) The mere existence of an lzo-static package (even if it's not included by default) would help those who'd like to migrate from whatever current use of zlib-static they have in their environment. Created attachment 988248 [details]
Patch for EPEL5 (lzo-2.02-2.el5.1) version of lzo.spec
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