Re: Queries regarding packaging of static libraries

2011-06-20 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 03:54:34PM +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 11:17 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > The correct way is to patch the Makefiles so they can build shared > > libraries, to send those patches upstream, and to unbundle any bundled > > libraries. It's quite a

Re: Queries regarding packaging of static libraries

2011-06-18 Thread Ankur Sinha
On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 11:17 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > The correct way is to patch the Makefiles so they can build shared > libraries, to send those patches upstream, and to unbundle any bundled > libraries. It's quite a bit of work, but if upstream accept your > patches then hopefully it'

Re: Queries regarding packaging of static libraries

2011-06-18 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 03:28:01PM +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on packaging required software to add to the fedora medical > initiative. > > Of late, I've come across quite a few *tiny* libraries which are build > deps for the software. The issue with most of these are tha

Queries regarding packaging of static libraries

2011-06-18 Thread Ankur Sinha
Hello, I'm working on packaging required software to add to the fedora medical initiative. Of late, I've come across quite a few *tiny* libraries which are build deps for the software. The issue with most of these are that they only provide static libraries. These are generally libraries used by