Bug#915566: libsystemd-dev: static library not provided

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Simon

On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 21:18:07 +0000 Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: libsystemd-dev
> Version: 239-14
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> libsystemd-dev doesn't provide a static library. Is this deliberate?

More or less. Upstream by default does not build any static libraries
and this needs to be turned on explicitly.

I quickly tested a build with
-Dstatic-libsystemd=true -Dstatic-libudev=true
which results in loads of warnings from dpkg-shlibdeps like this:

strip:
debian/libsystemd-dev/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/stObSVqO/src_libsystemd_sd-bus_bus-common-errors.c.o:
plugin needed to handle lto object


The size of the libudev-dev and libsystem-dev package exploded:
$ du -hs debian/libsystemd-dev/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.a
debian/libudev-dev/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.a
14M	debian/libsystemd-dev/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsystemd.a
18M	debian/libudev-dev/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libudev.a

I haven't actually test if the resulting .a files can be used to
successfully link a program statically. At the very least we'd have to
add an autopkgtest to regularly test this as this is not something which
is used and tested by upstream.

This and the issue with the huge .a files make me a bit concerned
enabling the build of the static libraries.

Regards,
Michael



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