visit icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
visit copied to clipboard

Have a few unnecessary archive library archives in our lib directory.

Open brugger1 opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

I was looking at our lib directory in a distribution and noticed that there were 4 archive libraries in the directory. I believe we only need to have shared libraries in there. Here is what I got from a distribution built on quartz.

ls visit3_3_0.linux-x86_64/3.3.0/linux-x86_64/lib/*.a
visit3_3_0.linux-x86_64/3.3.0/linux-x86_64/lib/libblosc.a
visit3_3_0.linux-x86_64/3.3.0/linux-x86_64/lib/libsiloh5.a
visit3_3_0.linux-x86_64/3.3.0/linux-x86_64/lib/libsz.a
visit3_3_0.linux-x86_64/3.3.0/linux-x86_64/lib/libz.a

brugger1 avatar Jul 05 '22 17:07 brugger1

We should check that we aren't using the static version before removing the archive library in case a plugin developer needed it. In the case of blosc we aren't. We should also look into only building the shared version instead of doing both.

brugger1 avatar Jul 05 '22 22:07 brugger1