Add staticlibs option in PKGBUILD

This option helps to removes static library files in packages.

Related to the thread:
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2013-March/024552.html

Signed-off-by: Sébastien Luttringer <seblu@seblu.net>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
index bd29d737..9b89c639 100644
--- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
+++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ declare -r confdir='@sysconfdir@'
 declare -r BUILDSCRIPT='@BUILDSCRIPT@'
 declare -r startdir="$PWD"
 
-packaging_options=('strip' 'docs' 'libtool' 'emptydirs' 'zipman' 'purge' 'upx' \
-                   'debug')
+packaging_options=('strip' 'docs' 'libtool' 'staticlibs' 'emptydirs' 'zipman' \
+                   'purge' 'upx' 'debug')
 other_options=('ccache' 'distcc' 'buildflags' 'makeflags')
 splitpkg_overrides=('pkgver' 'pkgrel' 'epoch' 'pkgdesc' 'arch' 'url' 'license' \
                     'groups' 'depends' 'optdepends' 'provides' 'conflicts' \
@@ -1503,6 +1503,11 @@ tidy_install() {
 		find . ! -type d -name "*.la" -exec rm -f -- '{}' \;
 	fi
 
+	if check_option "staticlibs" "n"; then
+		msg2 "$(gettext "Removing "%s" files...")" "static library"
+		find . ! -type d -name "*.a" -exec rm -f -- '{}' +
+	fi
+
 	if check_option "emptydirs" "n"; then
 		msg2 "$(gettext "Removing empty directories...")"
 		find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir '{}' + 2>/dev/null