Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (220 mails)

[Michael Matz <matz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Richard Guenther wrote:

> > There is also libstdc++<version>-devel that contains 
> > /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.5/libstdc++.a which might get 
> > splitted off a different package
>
> No, then -static-libstdc++ doesn't work anymore.  Seriously, who cares 
> about the size of -devel packages??

In this context the wish for explicitely having a package containing the 
static library is to know which packages link against libc statically and 
hence which ones to recompile should there be a security update for libc.  
I don't fully buy this way of thinking, and for libstdc++ it doesn't make 
much sense, as much code will always be statically in the application (all 
the template expansions).


Ciao,
Michael.
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