[OE-core] [PATCH] util-linux: Remove static libraries from -dev packages

[Richard Purdie]

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