Some distros [1] don't ship systematically static libraries, and pkg-config doesn't give us the information.
This is the case for libtasn1, so add a check in configure to see if linker is able to find the library. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Archive:PackagingDrafts/StaticLibraryPolicy Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laur...@vivier.eu> --- v2: do not duplicate --static flag do not special-casing static case configure | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/configure b/configure index f14454e..d5e3c91 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -2285,8 +2285,13 @@ tasn1=yes if $pkg_config --exists "libtasn1"; then tasn1_cflags=`$pkg_config --cflags libtasn1` tasn1_libs=`$pkg_config --libs libtasn1` - test_cflags="$test_cflags $tasn1_cflags" - test_libs="$test_libs $tasn1_libs" + # some distros (fedora) don't ship all static libraries + if compile_prog "$tasn1_cflags" "$tasn1_libs" ; then + test_cflags="$test_cflags $tasn1_cflags" + test_libs="$test_libs $tasn1_libs" + else + tasn1=no + fi else tasn1=no fi -- 2.4.3
