On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 01:47:15PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > Steve Langasek writes:
> > On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:23:00PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Le dimanche 09 décembre 2007 à 19:11 +0100, Bernhard R. Link a écrit : > >> > Just curing the symptoms instead of the problems will not help to get > >> > there any sooner. > >> What if there is no problem? > >> For example, pkg-config --libs gtk+-x11-2.0 will return, among others, > >> -lglib-2.0 and -lm. And this is perfectly intentional. > > Just because it's intentional doesn't mean it isn't absurd and wrong. > What happens for a user who (however absurd or insane he might be to > try this with gtk+) tries to link his application statically? Not that you should link statically with gtk (this yields the classic problem of internal ABI skew when statically linking with a library that uses dlopen), but pkg-config --static does exactly this. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
