On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 09:47:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Steve M. Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> wrote: > >> As I've come to understanding, nowadays many libraries doesn't allow > >> trivial static linkage, > > I don't follow; it's generally as simple as using -static on > > the link line. Pretty trivial. > [...] > Unless your are trying to link against a library that uses other > libraries ... In which case, since you're using pkg-config already, all you have to do is pass --static to pkg-config --libs too. Still pretty trivial. Remember that in the whole wide world of Unix linkers, glibc is an *anomaly* in being able to recursively resolve ELF dependencies; on most other systems, users have to construct the same sort of commandline for *dynamic* linking as we do for static linking. So there's been quite a lot of effort put into making it easy to construct these commandlines automatically (pkg-config and libtool). libtool's method of course has nasty side-effects for our common case that have led us to prefer stripping out the dependency information, but pkg-config still makes this pretty easy. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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