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From: "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
To: gentoo dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 07:01:00
Message-Id: 4CA97B8A.4040409@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] .la files and their future on Gentoo by "Michał Górny"
1 Le 04/10/2010 08:35, Michał Górny a écrit :
2 > On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:22 +0200
3 > Rémi Cardona <remi@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> #2a) pkg-config is one solution (what upstream Xorg says: "if you
6 >> want a static libX11, use pkg-config --static"), other teams/herds
7 >> could fix their packages' .pc files to correctly list all required
8 >> packages for proper static linking. It's not rocket science.
9 >
10 > AFAIK more .pc files rather need fixing to list only direct
11 > dependencies when '--static' is not used. pkg-config itself takes care
12 > of the dependencies pretty well.
13
14 Right, either way, .pc files usually need a little tweaking as devs
15 rarely touch them unless something is really broken. Patching (in
16 accordance with upstream of course) may be required.
17
18 But it's definitely my preferred solution (and a cross-platform one at
19 that!)
20
21 Cheers,
22
23 Rémi