Re: invoke pkg-config with --static

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 19:04 -0500, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sat, 16 May 2009, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> 
> > when ./configure is run with --disable-shared, is there a way to invoke the 
> > pkg-config macro with --static (so that it does not select private 
> > libraries 
> > in the .pc file)?
> 
> It seems that LT_INIT has been executed, the shell environment 
> variables enable_shared and enable_static are set to 'yes' if 
> shared and/or static libraries will be built.  You can test these 
> environment variables to determine the parameter to pass to 
> pkg-config.

But note, that private libraries are likely needed to like against when
creating a static build; its only shared libraries that the runtime
linker can resolve missing dependencies transitively for you, [and that
only on some platforms like glibc linux].

-Rob

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