Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 11:46:23 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> > (To actually statically link without the .la (or with an .la 'mangled'
> > to empty the dependency_libs field) largely amounts to reconstructing
> > the information that was in the .la originally. That should be
> > sufficient disincentive to try to statically link at all. Hence, is it
> > worth wasting archive space on the inevitably much larger .a files?)
>
> Static linking is resolved by providing a foo.pc file so that
> "pkg-config --static --libs foo" is all that's needed to find the right
> libs.
This does not clarify the question about dependences.
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