Re: get rid static libraries or fix them

[Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec suse cz>]

James Henstridge wrote:

> If you find things missing from Requires.private or Libs.private for a
> package, please report bugs.

See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405352#c2

However my guess, where private libraries are missing, may be incorrect.

Another problem with static libraries is a problem with linking with by
default shared only (for good reason) libgtk-x11-2.0.so, which implies
need for:
-Wl,-Bdynamic -lgtk-x11-2.0 -Wl,-Bstatic
instead of simple:
-lgtk-x11-2.0

This may be considered as a problem of gtk:
pkg-config --static --libs gtk+-2.0
will not work, unless you compile static gtk+ and pango libraries by
explicit recompilation with --enable-static.

So if package disable static library by AM_DISABLE_STATIC, the *.pc it
should care about -Wl,-Bdynamic and -Wl,-Bstatic.

It seems, that pkg-config does not support it, so I consider it as a
lack of feature in pkg-config.

I have just reported it as:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9917


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Best Regards / S pozdravem,

Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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