From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 7 01:18:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAB3C16A418 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 01:18:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hannah.tgi.net (hannah.tgi.net [64.34.34.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F75D13C44B for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2007 01:18:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: (qmail 893 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2007 18:24:18 -0700 Received: from cs213-60.fsmodem.washington.edu (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (140.142.173.61) by gnra.net with SMTP; 6 Oct 2007 18:24:18 -0700 Message-ID: <470833D0.3000903@u.washington.edu> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:18:08 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline , ports@freebsd.org References: <20071004190304.GA9491@hades.panopticon> <470806B0.50906@u.washington.edu> <20071006225627.GB66159@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071006225627.GB66159@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Idea: static builds X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:18:38 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:05:36PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> Jeremy Messenger wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:03:04 -0500, Dmitry Marakasov >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> I just have an idea that may be useful: static port builds. This can >>>> help produce packages without any depends, which may be useful >>>> sometimes. >>>> >>>> Implementation seem pretty straightfoward to me: >>>> - Introduce STATIC_BUILD variable that changes usual build behavior >>>> - Process LIB_DEPENDS in a different way: check .a instead of .so.*, and >>>> fail if .a is missing, and .so is present (i.e. needed static lib is not >>>> available at all), don't add library ports to package depends >>>> - Add -static to CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS >>>> >>>> Any comments? I will try to experiment with this for now. >>>> >>> How do you deal with the security? It will be required for all ports >>> that depend on a port to be rebuild, so bump the PORTREVISION will be >>> need. But what about for non-static that don't need to be bump? A >>> solution for that might be need too. >>> >>> I have no object with static build as long as it is flexible and >>> optional (disable/enable). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Mezz >>> >>> >>> >> Static, built upon static, built upon static would be a bad thing to >> watch out for too I'd think... >> Am I wrong? >> > > > > I would allow the shells to be built statically, and perhaps > most or all of /bin. Hm. And a few other necessary utilities. > Things-X aren't essentials. But vi is. ed still gives me > nightmares![*] > > Wasn't the reason for NON-static builds mostly to > save-disc-space??? Whatever, having ports that build > statically-- things that won't bomb if libfoo.so.3 is > missing-- having this seeems like the best idea in years! > How much hacking to the Makefles is it? > > gary > > >> -Garrett >> > > [*] for the humor-impaired: Joke. > None whatsoever really. I think it just involves making a few changes to /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf, if you want to make the modification just for yourself (I don't do that though, so I'm not sure. Just OTOH rememberances). -Garrett