Bug#698247: clang ships most libraries as static libraries, not shared ones

[Mariana Meireles]

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:55:03 +0100 Matthias Klose <doko at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: clang
> Severity: important
> 
> at least for 3.2:
> 
> $ ls /usr/lib/libclang*
> /usr/lib/libclang.a             /usr/lib/libclangFrontendTool.a
> /usr/lib/libclang.so            /usr/lib/libclangLex.a
> /usr/lib/libclang.so.1          /usr/lib/libclangParse.a
> /usr/lib/libclangARCMigrate.a   /usr/lib/libclangRewriteCore.a
> /usr/lib/libclangAST.a          /usr/lib/libclangRewriteFrontend.a
> /usr/lib/libclangASTMatchers.a  /usr/lib/libclangSema.a
> /usr/lib/libclangAnalysis.a     /usr/lib/libclangSerialization.a
> /usr/lib/libclangBasic.a        /usr/lib/libclangStaticAnalyzerCheckers.a
> /usr/lib/libclangCodeGen.a      /usr/lib/libclangStaticAnalyzerCore.a
> /usr/lib/libclangDriver.a       /usr/lib/libclangStaticAnalyzerFrontend.a
> /usr/lib/libclangEdit.a         /usr/lib/libclangTooling.a
> /usr/lib/libclangFrontend.a
> 
> and it doesn't look like libclang.so is the catch-all shared library, like
> libLLVM-3.2.so is for llvm. Is this intended?
> 
> so creduce (currently in NEW) has to use the static libs.
> 
> 


Hi, I’m interested in working in this bug. Even though I have some previous experience contributing to open source I’ve never contributed to Debian before. Is someone available to mentor this bug and help me out if I get stuck in something?

Also, can I work in this?

Thanks!