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Re: Confused by .la file removal vs static linking support



On Sun, May  2, 2010 at 15:30:37 +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:

> > 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.
> 
It does, because foo.pc won't work without its dependencies installed
(even if you're not using --static; they're needed for --cflags).

Cheers,
Julien

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