[oe] Revert "package bbclass: strip static libs as well"

Denys Dmytriyenko denis at denix.org
Fri Oct 23 18:26:08 UTC 2009


On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 09:36:16AM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 10:23 +0200, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> > One thing that pops back into my mind is to move .a files into a -static 
> > package? People that want to link statically can pick their .a files.
> 
> Yes, I think someone else proposed this a few weeks ago but it doesn't
> seem to have happened.  Given that static linking is pretty much a
> minority pursuit nowadays (excepting libc_noshared.a) this sounds like a
> fine idea.

I was the one who brought this up few weeks ago - but unfortunately I couldn't 
find enough time to invest in the solution of moving .a files into -static 
subpackages. I ended up just using Koen's fix for now, which worked for the 
external toolchain, as there are no _nonshared libs there...

-- 
Denys




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