Re: invoke pkg-config with --static

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Lorenzo Bettini wrote on Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:27:32PM CEST:
> > Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > * Lorenzo Bettini wrote on Sun, May 17, 2009 at 09:07:16AM CEST:
> > > > 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)?
> > > You can just use pkg-config --static all the time, unless
> > >  ( disable_static && ( host_os == Linux || host_os == Solaris ) )
> > >
> > > Works wonders! :-)
> > mhhh... so basically this means that it is better not to use  
> > Libs.private in the pkg-config file,
>
> No, that is not what I said.  Doing that will continue to do the wrong
> thing even when Libtool is fixed one day.

No, I meant: not using Libs.private at all is however a safe choice, 
isn't it?

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