mbakke pushed a commit to branch core-updates
in repository guix.
commit d52680eec04c83c9350ebedebea19f9aa67ac1e9
Author: Marius Bakke <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Dec 11 23:27:09 2018 +0100
gnu: libxml2: Don't reference libxml2.a in the default output.
* gnu/packages/xml.scm (libxml2)[arguments]: Add substitution for
libxml2.la.
---
gnu/packages/xml.scm | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/xml.scm b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
index fd4c3fe..b85064e 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/xml.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/xml.scm
@@ -145,6 +145,12 @@ hierarchical form with variable field lengths.")
(rename-file ar (string-append dst "/"
(basename
ar))))
(find-files src "\\.a$"))
+
+ ;; Remove reference to the static library from the .la
+ ;; file such that Libtool does the right thing when
both
+ ;; the shared and static variants are available.
+ (substitute* (string-append src "/libxml2.la")
+ (("^old_library='libxml2.a'") "old_library=''"))
#t))))))
(home-page "http://www.xmlsoft.org/";)
(synopsis "C parser for XML")
