> > Do you have a static libgthread-2.0? (ie /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.a or
> > equivalent).
> Nope, this is what I have:
>
> /usr/lib64/libgthread.so
> /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so
> /usr/lib64/libgthread-1.2.so.0
> /usr/lib64/libgthread-1.2.so.0.0.10
>
> *but*, just downloaded the source rpm and looked at the .spec file. It
> contains the following few lines in the %build section:
>
> %configure --disable-static
> [...]
> ## Unpackaged files
> # info
> %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_infodir}
> # .la fies... die die die.
> %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/lib*.la
> # despite use of --disable-static, delete static libs that get built anyway
> %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/lib*.a
>
>
> So, somebody at Fedora doesn't like static (.a) files very much, it seems. I
> could easily correct this, enable static building and have these installed, I
> think.
There's glib2-static in Fedora:
$ rpm -ql glib2-static
/usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.a
/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.a
/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.a
/usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.a
/usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.a
Thanks.
-- Max
