On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 11:58 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 11:37:02AM +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 11:08 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > > Rather than setting -Bstatic in the linker flags when doing a static link, > > > and then having to explicitly set -Bdynamic again afterwards, we can > > > update > > > the pkg-config file to use -l:libfoo.a syntax to explicitly refer to the > > > static library in question. Since this syntax is not supported by meson's > > > pkg-config module directly, we can post-process the .pc files instead to > > > adjust them. > > > > > > Once done, we can simplify the examples' makefiles and the docs by > > > removing > > > the explicit static flag > > > > This sounds like a worthwhile feature request for Meson to me. Would > > you be up for opening an RFE on their issue tracker explaining the use > > case, please? > > > Yes, I can do so. > > I didn't look to implement this in meson myself because it would take so > long to get into a version that we would use as our minimum version. :-( > > /Bruce
Yeah that's fair, an issue to put in the radar is fine, and if anyone has time to implement it then we can remove the workarounds in the future -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
