Why the static library will delete after the package installation of dlib?

Why the static library will delete after the package installation of dlib?

[Hamzeh Nasajpour]

Hi,

I'm using `dlib` in a project and I found that the static library will be deleted in the `delete-static-library` phase in the package installation. Why? 

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm#n814

Is there any problem to comment these lines for using the `dlib` as library? (line 814 - 817)

Regards,
Hamzeh

Re: Why the static library will delete after the package installation of dlib?

[Efraim Flashner]

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 05:48:29PM +0430, Hamzeh Nasajpour wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using `dlib` in a project and I found that the static library will be deleted in the `delete-static-library` phase in the package installation. Why? 
> 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/machine-learning.scm#n814
> 
> Is there any problem to comment these lines for using the `dlib` as library? (line 814 - 817)
> 
> Regards,
> Hamzeh

We normally try to delete the static library so the shared library is
available and overall the package takes less space. I see, however, that
dlib defaults to static and doesn't build both by default, leaving out
package without any library installed.

This should be fixed shortly, with a shared library now in the lib
directory.

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