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Re: Static linking: pkgconfig vs libtool



* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> schrieb:

> pkg-config is much superior to libtool, since libtool includes all the
> libraries on dynamic links as well, which creates unwanted shared library
> dependencies and causes other problems.  Because of that, the trend in
> Debian is to empty that information from libtool *.la files or not ship
> them at all, making them useless for static linking information.

Gentoo is also in process of getting rid of .la files.


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