> 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). What for?
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