Hi, libxslt.pc, libexslt.pc and xslt-config all incorrectly pass private library dependencies (such as libm and libgcrypt) to the command line when linking dynamically. This causes un-necessary dependencies to be created.
For many years, Debian has patched libxslt to avoid this problem. In libxslt's pkg-config files, M_LIBS and LIBGCRYPT_LIBS are moved to the Libs.private field, where they will only be passed to the command line if --static is passed to pkg-config. In xslt-config, Debian patches the source to add a new switch, --static, which combines with --libs to output the dependencies required for static linking. Private dependencies are not passed to the command line when --libs is invoked as normal. This problem was identified as still present when patching upstream PHP 7.4 to use libxslt's pkg-config files. Patches are available in a merge request #3 on Gitlab [1]. Regards, Hugh [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxslt/merge_requests/3 _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ xslt@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
