This one time, at band camp, Michael Poole said: > What happens for a user who (however absurd or insane he might be to > try this with gtk+) tries to link his application statically? > > Perhaps the "absurd and wrong" part is that pkg-config does not > provide a way to distinguish between use cases, and that the name for > the current behavior should also be --static-libs rather than --libs, > but there is a good reason to provide the transitive closure of > dependencies for a package *somewhere* in pkg-config. That is supported in pkg-config, but no upstream I've ever met seems to understand it yet. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sgran@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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