Hello,
I have a simple suggestion for the (much talented ;o) developers of glib.
(gtk+ developers may also be interested)
By default, both static and dynamic libraries are built during glib installation:
this is fine for me.
At work, we want to link statically an application against glib.
So I tried to use the elegant way to do that, that is to use "glib-config".
But with "glib-config", there is no way to get the static libraries instead
of the dynamic libraries (option "--libs").
So I suggest the little patch attached to this post, that add an option "--staticlibs"
to "glib-config" in order to get something like "/usr/local/lib/libglib.a" instead of
"-L/usr/local/lib -lglib".
This problem had already been noticed back in 1998, but seemingly never addressed:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-list/1998-November/msg00701.html
Have a nice day.
--- glib-1.2.10.old/glib-config.in Sat Oct 28 06:35:30 2000
+++ glib-1.2.10/glib-config.in Thu Feb 14 10:27:41 2002
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
[--prefix[=DIR]]
[--exec-prefix[=DIR]]
[--version]
- [--libs]
+ [--[static]libs]
[--cflags]
Libraries:
glib
@@ -61,6 +61,9 @@
--libs)
echo_libs=yes
;;
+ --staticlibs)
+ echo_staticlibs=yes
+ ;;
glib)
lib_glib=yes
;;
@@ -105,4 +108,20 @@
libsa="$libsa @G_MODULE_LIBS@"
fi
echo -L@libdir@ $libsp $libsa
+fi
+if test "$echo_staticlibs" = "yes"; then
+ libsp=""
+ libsa=""
+ if test "$lib_glib" = "yes"; then
+ libsp="@libdir@/libglib.a"
+ fi
+ if test "$lib_gthread" = "yes"; then
+ libsp="@libdir@/libgthread.a $libsp"
+ libsa="$libsa -lpthread"
+ fi
+ if test "$lib_gmodule" = "yes"; then
+ libsp="@libdir@/libgmodule.a $libsp"
+ libsa="$libsa @G_MODULE_LIBS@"
+ fi
+ echo $libsp $libsa
fi
