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

[Stanislav Brabec]

Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> On Friday 23 October 2009 13:07:06 Stanislav Brabec wrote:

> > I think that the logic should be:
> > 
> > libfoo.a exists and libfoo.so exists => put .a to -static.
> > 
> > libfoo.a exists and libfoo.so does not exist => put .a to -dev.
> > 
> > This logic will work as most users expect and will need no exception for
> > glibc.
> 
> This will add even more python code to package.bbclass and can not be realized 
> with a FILES_* change. I would prefer a stupid QA check for that as I don't 
> expect this to happen on many packages.

That it will happen for all packages that don't provide shared library.
These packages may end by broken -dev package with just the
*.a => -static rule.

I am not sure, how many such packages exist in the tree, but here is a
list of files in my work directory that would need special care:

alsa-oss-1.0.17-r0: /usr/lib/libossredir.a
binutils-2.18-r8.1: /usr/lib/libiberty.a
bison-2.3-r0: /usr/lib/liby.a
bridge-utils-1.4-r0: /usr/lib/libbridge.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libnss.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libnssutil.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libunicharutil_external_s.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libembed_base_standalone.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libsoftokn.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libssl.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libembed_base_s.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libcrmf.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libsmime.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libxpcomglue_s.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libmozreg_s.a
firefox-3.5.2-r2: /usr/lib/firefox-devel-3.5.2/sdk/lib/libxpcomglue.a
flex-2.5.31-r4: /usr/lib/libfl.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib64/libiberty.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libgfortran.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libssp.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libiberty.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libstdc++_pic.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libssp_nonshared.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libsupc++.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/lib/libstdc++.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcc.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcc_eh.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgfortranbegin.a
gcc-cross-4.3.3-r7.1: /OE/build/tmp/cross/armv5te/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcov.a
gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/libstdc++_pic.a
gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/libssp_nonshared.a
gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcc.a
gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcc_eh.a
gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgfortranbegin.a
gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/gcc/arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi/4.3.3/libgcov.a
gcc-4.3.3-r7.1: /usr/lib/libsupc++.a
gdb-7.0-r0: /usr/lib/libbfd.a
gdb-7.0-r0: /usr/lib/libopcodes.a
gdb-7.0-r0: /usr/lib/libiberty.a
glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a
glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libmcheck.a
glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libg.a
glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libbsd-compat.a
glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libieee.a
glibc-2.9-r35.2: /usr/lib/libpthread_nonshared.a
libassuan-0.6.9-r0: /usr/lib/libassuan.a
libatomics-ops-1.2-r2: /usr/lib/libatomic_ops_gpl.a
libatomics-ops-1.2-r2: /usr/lib/libatomic_ops.a
libsdl-x11-1.2.11-r8: /usr/lib/libSDLmain.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmysys.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libdbug.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libvio.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libheap.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmerge.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libnisam.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmysqld.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmyisam.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmyisammrg.a
mysql-4.1.22-r3: /usr/lib/libmystrings.a
orbit2-2.14.17-r0: /usr/lib/libname-server-2.a
perl-5.8.8-r28: /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
python-2.6.1-ml8.0: /usr/lib/python2.6/config/libpython2.6.a
tcl-8.4.19-r2: /usr/lib/libtclstub8.4.a
tk-8.4.19-r0: /usr/lib/libtkstub8.4.a
tcl-native-8.4.19-r2: /OE/build/tmp/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/libtclstub8.4.a
tk-native-8.4.19-r0: /OE/build/tmp/staging/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/libtkstub8.4.a

Found by this bash command:
find */*/image -name '*.a' | fgrep -v .debug | while read ; do if ! test -f "${REPLY%.a}.so" ; then PKG=$REPLY ; PKG=${PKG#*/} ; PKG=${PKG%%/*} ; echo $PKG: ${REPLY#*/image} ; fi ; done


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Stanislav Brabec
http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/zaurus