Why is there no glibc-devel-static-32bit package in openSUSE 12.1 64bit?

sven1999 · November 23, 2011, 11:13am

Hi.

openSUSE constantly reduces the number of static libraries. From a maintenance and
security point of view, I understand this perfectly. But if you have to produce binaries
for your own projects, linking with static libraries really avoids lots of troubles for your
users.

That said:
openSUSE 12.1 (64 bit) has no static 32bit versions of C lib etc. anymore.
I would expect a package glibc-devel-static-32bit named to contain /usr/lib/libc.a etc.
But I can only find the package glibc-devel-static containing /usr/lib64/libc.a etc.

Conclusion:
Please consider providing a package glibc-devel-static-32bit for openSUSE 12.1 64bit.

Sven

robin_listas · November 23, 2011, 11:28am

On 2011-11-23 11:16, sven1999 wrote:

> Please consider providing a package glibc-devel-static-32bit for
> openSUSE 12.1 64bit.

WE can not. This forum is “users helping users”. We are not the devs.

You can try the factory mail list, or a bugzilla.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

martin_helm · November 23, 2011, 1:05pm

Am 23.11.2011 11:28, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> On 2011-11-23 11:16, sven1999 wrote:
>
>> Please consider providing a package glibc-devel-static-32bit for
>> openSUSE 12.1 64bit.
>
> WE can not. This forum is “users helping users”. We are not the devs.
>
> You can try the factory mail list, or a bugzilla.
>
If you want to create a program with the c lib linked static you use the
compiler switch static.


#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
printf("Hello
");
return 0;
}

as test.c


gcc test.c
ldd a.out
linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fff51ad9000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe4d6e0b000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fe4d7178000)

gcc -static test.c
ldd a.out
not a dynamic executable

sven1999 · November 23, 2011, 1:15pm

Thanks Martin. My point is: there is no libc.a which gcc/ld could use in the described setting.

sven1999 · November 23, 2011, 1:19pm

Yes, sorry for the noise, but many users are programmers and must solve similar problems.
Maybe some user knows where to find the sought package

djh-novell · November 23, 2011, 1:34pm

sven1999 wrote:
> Yes, sorry for the noise, but many users are programmers and must solve
> similar problems.
> Maybe some user knows where to find the sought package

The concentration of users who are programmers is greater in the
Programming-Scripting forum. Which would be a better place for a
question about programming and libraries, IMHO.

martin_helm · November 23, 2011, 1:39pm

Am 23.11.2011 13:34, schrieb Dave Howorth:
> sven1999 wrote:
>> Yes, sorry for the noise, but many users are programmers and must solve
>> similar problems.
>> Maybe some user knows where to find the sought package
>
> The concentration of users who are programmers is greater in the
> Programming-Scripting forum. Which would be a better place for a
> question about programming and libraries, IMHO.
Install glibc-devel that’s it (I misunderstood to original question
somehow and thought that a programmer always has the -devel packages
installed)


rpm -ql glibc-devel | grep libc.a
/usr/lib64/libc.a

sven1999 · November 23, 2011, 1:53pm

OK, I have moved to the suggested forum.

sven1999 · November 23, 2011, 1:55pm

/usr/lib64/libc.a is there, sure.
But I am building 32bit binaries and hence was surprised that starting with openSUSE 12.1 the 32bit developer packages have only shared (and not static) libraries.

robin_listas · November 23, 2011, 2:13pm

On 2011-11-23 13:56, sven1999 wrote:
>
> /usr/lib64/libc.a is there, sure.
> But I am building 32bit binaries and hence was surprised that starting
> with openSUSE 12.1 the 32bit developer packages have only shared (and
> not static) libraries.

If the 64 bit package has it, and the 32 bit package has it not, then you
can open a bugzilla immediately.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)

martin_helm · November 23, 2011, 2:45pm

Am 23.11.2011 14:13, schrieb Carlos E. R.:
> On 2011-11-23 13:56, sven1999 wrote:
>>
>> /usr/lib64/libc.a is there, sure.
>> But I am building 32bit binaries and hence was surprised that starting
>> with openSUSE 12.1 the 32bit developer packages have only shared (and
>> not static) libraries.
>
> If the 64 bit package has it, and the 32 bit package has it not, then you
> can open a bugzilla immediately.
>


martinh@ganymed:~/tmp> rpm -ql glibc-devel-32bit | grep libc.a
/usr/lib/libc.a

this is on 11.4 please check the same package for 12.1.

martin_helm · November 23, 2011, 4:14pm

Am 23.11.2011 14:45, schrieb Martin Helm:
>


> martinh@ganymed:~/tmp> rpm -ql glibc-devel-32bit | grep libc.a
> /usr/lib/libc.a
>

> this is on 11.4 please check the same package for 12.1.
>
It is not there in 12.1 please see my answer to your other thread and
sorry for me being so grumpy today, I will take a timeout.