On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 15:30:37 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:46:23 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > (To actually statically link without the .la (or with an .la 'mangled' > > > to empty the dependency_libs field) largely amounts to reconstructing > > > the information that was in the .la originally. That should be > > > sufficient disincentive to try to statically link at all. Hence, is it > > > worth wasting archive space on the inevitably much larger .a files?) > > > > Static linking is resolved by providing a foo.pc file so that > > "pkg-config --static --libs foo" is all that's needed to find the right > > libs. > > This does not clarify the question about dependences. > It does, because foo.pc won't work without its dependencies installed (even if you're not using --static; they're needed for --cflags).
Cheers, Julien
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