30/06/2020 16:14, Bruce Richardson: > Rather than setting -Bstatic in the linker flags when doing a static link, > and then having to explicitly set -Bdynamic again afterwards, we can update > the pkg-config file to use -l:libfoo.a syntax to explicitly refer to the > static library in question. Since this syntax is not supported by meson's > pkg-config module directly, we can post-process the .pc files instead to > adjust them. > > Once done, we can simplify the examples' makefiles and the docs by removing > the explicit static flag. > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> > Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> > Acked-by: Sunil Pai G <sunil.pa...@intel.com> > --- > --- a/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build > +++ b/buildtools/pkg-config/meson.build > +# the pkg-config file generated is not best tuned for static linking so > +# use a script to adjust the linker flags > +run_command(py3, 'set-static-linker-flags.py', check: true)
The comment could be made more precise: # For static linking with dependencies as shared libraries, # the static libraries must be flagged explicitly. For the rest, Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
