Re: Question about gpsd library/linking for an external gpsd client?

[Greg Troxel]

"Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:

>> It is true that packaging systems do not want things *in the packaging
>> system* to link with static libs or to build copies of things that
>> should be packages.
>
> You're gonna love Go.  :-)

I love that almost as much as I love rust :-) But seriously, there is a
typical tension between packaging systems with these sort of "link,
don't include" norms, and the schemes that tend to be built around a "In
the future, all software will be in our language, and our
language-specific packaging system will be all people need."

>> > If you want libgps.a, set shared=false when you configure gpsd.  
>> 
>> That seems to turn off .so, or at least that's what it says.  Really
>> there should be a staticlib=true even if it defaults to off, that
>> doesn't disable shlibs.
>
> Yeah, they need to be independent.  I'll work on that after I find
> where the .so went.

Great, glad to hear it - understand about priorities!