2009/10/17 Lluís Batlle <[email protected]>: > The generic builder script has this excerpt of code: > # By default, disable static builds. > if test -z "$dontDisableStatic"; then > if grep -q enable-static $configureScript; then > configureFlags="--disable-static $configureFlags" > fi > fi > > So, if you want the static library, set dontDisableStatic=true in your > derivation. > > Why does audacity want the static version of the library? It should > not care much on that. > > Regards, > Lluís. > > 2009/10/17 Tony White <[email protected]>: >> Hi guys, >> I've been trying to get audacity to build, with some interesting >> results. However, I think I've found a problem and I need someone else >> to confirm it. >> The problem is with the libmad package (An optional dependency of >> audacity) and possibly any other src archive that uses the ar archive >> format to gather .o files into a single lib. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_(Unix) >> With libmad there should be a lib/libmad.a file created as a result of >> the compilation but it is not. I used fedora 12 here to do a test and >> the output result should be : >> >> include/mad.h >> lib/libmad.a >> lib/libmad.la >> lib/libmad.so (A symlink to lib/libmad.so.0.2.1) >> lib/libmad.so.0 (A symlink to lib/libmad.so.0.2.1) >> lib/libmad.so.0.2.1 >> >> Using NixOs with binutils added as a buildInput the ouput is : >> >> include/mad.h >> lib/libmad.la >> lib/libmad.so (A symlink to lib/libmad.so.0.2.1) >> lib/libmad.so.0 (A symlink to lib/libmad.so.0.2.1) >> lib/libmad.so.0.2.1 >> >> And lib/libmad.a does not get created. >> >> The worst thing about all this is that where the .o files are created >> for libmad isn't even clear. They get created in a folder called .libs >> in the build dir, so you can't even see the folder in normal directory >> output in a console or without showing hidden files in kde's dolphin >> file manager. >> >> libmad is quite a quick compile and nice as a test case, so could >> anyone please investigate why the ar archive doesn't get created >> please? I've managed to workaround it but I think I'm seeing the same >> thing with portaudio and if this is system wide, there could be >> potential for problems. Who knows how many developers want to bundle >> .o files as a .a ar archives? >> >> So my questions are : Is this a bug or just bad build scripts? If I >> manually create the libmad.a and copy it to lib/, do I need to run >> patchelf on it seperately? >> >> Thanks, >> Tony >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > Hi guys, Thanks for the replies. So libmad.a is a static library? Audacity wants libmad.a because it uses the .o files inside the ar archive as compile time dependencies and if I build it as shared on fedora libmad.a is created.
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