As you sort of allude to, Agg is so heavily templatized that there's little
benefit to linking against a shared library (little disk space savings, for
instance).
However, there are some .cpp (i.e. non-header files) that need to be compiled
and linked. If Debian doesn't include a shared library, how would we link to
those?
You can see what .cpp files we need (we don't need all of them) by looking at
build_agg in setupext.py
Assuming you can get this to work with Debian's packages, I think the cleanest
way to find and link to it is by using pkg-config. Does the Agg Debian package
provide a pkg-config .pc file? There is code in setupext to do pkg-config
lookups -- we could try that first, and if that fails, fall back on out
included copy of Agg.
What we would want to avoid, of course, is including the system Agg and linking
against the local Agg as your patch appears to do. That could be a problem,
especially wrt any Debian-specific patches added in the future.
Sorry I can't help more now (I'm away from the office), but let me know how far
you get with this info and if you run up against something else.
Cheers,
Mike
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