Apologies for breaking the thread of the discussion; still haven’t figured out how to cold-respond to a thread without an incoming email.
Thank you for your response. Indeed, for my purposes I only need the static linux-user binary, so I can just remove SDL and it’s not a problem. I’d agree that it is an SDL package distribution problem; in this case it is coming from delian-jessie. Thank you, Sam McKelvie > On May 11, 2016, at 11:30 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > On 11 May 2016 at 19:12, Sam McKelvie <sam...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am having this same problem. Looking at the configure script >> it looks like it prefers to use: >> >> pkg-config sdl —static >> >> to get the static linker flags, rather than: >> >> sdl-config —static-libs > > Are you trying to statically compile to get a linux-user > binary, or a system-emulation binary? For the former we > shouldn't be linking in SDL anyway, and statically compiling > the latter isn't really supported in my view. (Maybe we > should make configure explicitly reject it. It has a tendency > to break because distros don't check the static-compilation > version of their pkg-config configuration files.) > >> The former returns an empty string; the latter returns the correct >> library list. If it had used the latter it would work properly. >> There is a note in the configure effect suggesting that pig-config >> is preferred, but I’m not sure why that is… > > pkg-config plays better with cross compilation: you have one > your-architecture-pkg-config which knows about the config files > for that architecture for all libraries. Having a different > config script for each library makes it a huge pain to try > to swap in the right one for each architecture. > > (If the two give different answers this is a distro bug.) > > thanks > -- PMM
