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Bug#515793: Get cgit included with statically linked libgit.a?



Am Montag, den 15.03.2010, 12:47 -0700 schrieb Marc Singer:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Paul Menzel <pm.debian@googlemail.com>wrote:
> > Am Sonntag, den 07.03.2010, 15:51 -0800 schrieb Marc Singer:
> > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Paul Menzel <pm.debian@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > > Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 09:40 -0800 schrieb Marc Singer:
> > > > > The upstream build of cgit requires a download of git to build libgit
> > > > > which this package links statically.  Thus, this package practically
> > > > > depends on a change to git-core.
> > > > >
> > > > >   http://hjemli.net/git/cgit/
> > > >
> > > > the blocking bug 407722 [1] is marked »wontfix« and judging from the
> > > > answers on my question sent to the Git list (also cc-ed to [1]) it looks
> > > > like the only option is to link statically against libgit. :(
> > > >
> > > > Can some Debian Developers please comment on this? And if no other
> > > > solution is proposed could we get cgit included into the Debian package
> > > > repository and with luck cgit might be available in Debian squeeze.
> > >
> > > I'm not optimistic that the git developers will support development
> > > against the library.  It's really a shame since it would benefit some
> > > kinds of projects that are performance bound
> >
> > You are right, as can be seen by the replies to bug #407722 [1].
> >
> > So we should deal with this situation and link against libgit
> > statically. What do I miss?
>
> IMHO, that would be an unwise path.  The GIT developers
> are committed to being able to change the interface.   Seems
> like the design of cgit needs to change in order to move forward.

I thought the replies from the Git developers to [1] (especially [2])
meant that it is ok to link it statically.

What harm would it do if we link it statically. Would not that only
affect cgit?


Thanks,

Paul


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> > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407722
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=407722#84

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