Re: libqt5x11extras5-dev should contain libQt5X11Extras.a?
Hi!
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 13:29, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's quite a rabbit hole. Just run
> find /usr/ -name "*.a" 2>/dev/null
> on your system to see :)
Actually Pino made me note that some libs are indeed only available as
a static library. In this case I think it's because it's used to open
forms at runtime. Making the lib static means that the forms will be
interpreted exactly with the same version of code used to compile
them.
The code is even BSD-3-clause, meaning that even on proprietary code
using the LGPL this is still valid.
On the other hand it also makes sense to keep them, Qt itself is
configured to produce dynamic libs only (except, as we learned, some
special cases)
So actually not a bug, but a nice opportunity to learn :-)
Cheers, Lisandro.
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