Bug#375218: ITP: liblzf-dev -- a very small data compression library

["Izak Burger" <isburger@gmail.com>]

On 6/24/06, Tim Dijkstra (tdykstra) <tim@famdijkstra.org> wrote:
>  The upstream author
> also only provides infrastructure for static linking.

iirc there are ways to make a dynamic library even if upstream only
provides a static one.  I think I once saw this method employed for
another debian package: use "ar t" to get a list of objects from the
static library, then call gcc -shared -fPIC on those objects to also
make a dynamic version.  Might be a useful addition.  Not sure what
the policy is about -dev packages without a non-dev library only
version to acompany it.

regards,
Izak