Dear Debian Developers! In the application I am taking part in, I am trying to create a configuration script to be able to provide two deliverables: dynamically-linked executable and statically-linked.
The first problem I faced is that it is difficult to explore what should be the list of libraries for static linking (as I have to provide the list of libraries which are direct dependencies as well as indirect). I know this problem is solved with libtool (which consumes the information from *.la) and with pkg-config (which consumes the information from *.pc). The problems I faced: * General question. What is the current trend: to use libtool or pkg-config? For me it is easier to use pkg-config CLI, rather then re-write autoconf scripts to fit libtool ideology (maybe I don't need to, fixme). * Some libraries (e.g. GraphicsMagick) does not provide the list of libraries for statis linking via .pc (compare 'pkg-config --static --libs GraphicsMagick++' and 'GraphicsMagick++-config --libs'). Should it be fired as a bug for GraphicsMagick package? * Some libraries (e.g.) do not follow the agreement for .NET/CLI (http://pkg-mono.alioth.debian.org/cli-policy/ch-packaging.html#s-pkg-config-file) which I think is also good to follow for common libraries: - xfprint4-4.6.1 package contains xfprint-1.0.pc (expected: xfprint4.pc or xfprint4.pc -symlink-> xfprint4-4.6.1.pc) - libxml2-dev package contains libxml-2.0.pc (expected: libxml2.pc or libxml2.pc -symlink-> libxml2-2.7.7.pc) I have posted this question also to stackoverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3932742/static-library-auto-discovery-and-linking) but I haven't got a complete answer, so I kindly ask the Debian community to help me. Thank you in advance! -- With best regards, Dmitry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ce6ec61.7030...@mail.ru
