On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 11:08 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > Rather than setting -Bstatic in the linker flags when doing a static link, > and then having to explicitly set -Bdynamic again afterwards, we can update > the pkg-config file to use -l:libfoo.a syntax to explicitly refer to the > static library in question. Since this syntax is not supported by meson's > pkg-config module directly, we can post-process the .pc files instead to > adjust them. > > Once done, we can simplify the examples' makefiles and the docs by removing > the explicit static flag
This sounds like a worthwhile feature request for Meson to me. Would you be up for opening an RFE on their issue tracker explaining the use case, please? -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
