On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:53:37PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 23:48:21 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > Although not very probably, until now Debian used to support static linking > > (libdev packages provide .a files, and depend on libdev packages that > > provide dependent .a files). > That's not true, afaik. If you're linking statically, you have to > figure out dependencies on your own. Conventionally, library -dev packages do depend on other -dev packages that they require for static linking; and certainly, tools like pkg-config and libtool (and other home-grown foo-config scripts) tend to encourage this behavior. Nowadays, with a proper .pc file I would argue that this could be reduced to a Recommends. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]