Getting at Libs.private from autoconf
Tollef Fog Heen
tfheen at err.no
Thu Feb 12 04:26:34 PST 2009
]] David Evans
| On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:21:39PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| > ]] David Evans
| >
| > | True,. although you already call pkg-config twice (for --cflags and
| > | --libs). Is --statiuc expeced to be expensive or is it just that it's
| > | silly to call it evvery time if it's rarely used?
| >
| > The problem is it'll break if you don't have all the recursive
| > dependencies installed, not the cost of calling pkg-config.
|
| Ahahh! Fair enough, though if you're doing static linking and
| you don't have the dependencies installed, you're in for pain anyway,
| Still, there might be a nasty interaction with cross compiling.
Of course, which is why I wanted this to be added as an option (for the
writer of the configure.ac file) rather than it always being called.
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