Bug#1000600: libudev.a static library missing.

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Control: severity -1 wishlist



Those marking as wontfix.

On 25.11.21 19:39, Bram Stolk wrote:

upstream is strictly against static linking, thus there is no static library anymore and we won't patch downstream to add one.

Package: libudev-dev
Version: 247.3-6

The libudev-dev package only comes with a shared library, not with a static library. https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/amd64/libudev-dev/filelist <https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/amd64/libudev-dev/filelist>

NOTE: THIS WAS NOT ALWAYS THE CASE.

We haven't shipped a libudev.a since jessie, i.e. for over 4 release, roughly 8 years.

Somewhere along the line, the libudev.a file disappeared.
(It could have happened with the inclusion into systemd sources?)

This means that statically linking against libudev will fail:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ludev
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I see no reason why libudev should not be available as a static library as well.

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