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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] About static linking
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:52:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140423225243.38a542c0@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a2d055301fd7b62deb7599263ad3ff0ee94c1870.1398283199.git.baruch@tkos.co.il>

Dear Baruch Siach,

On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:59:59 +0300, Baruch Siach wrote:

> +DHCPDUMP_LIBS = -lpcap
> +ifeq ($(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),y)
> +DHCPDUMP_LIBS += $(shell $(STAGING_DIR)/usr/bin/pcap-config --static --additional-libs)
> +endif

This is not at all against your patch specifically, but I'm a bit
worried about all the static linking related kludges we add all over
the place. Is this normal? Shouldn't we fix the packages themselves and
submit patches upstream?

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-23 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-23 19:59 [Buildroot] [PATCH] dhcpdump: fix static build Baruch Siach
2014-04-23 20:52 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2014-04-24  4:29   ` [Buildroot] About static linking Baruch Siach
2014-04-24  7:16     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-04-24 15:23   ` Peter Korsgaard
2014-04-24 22:01     ` Arnout Vandecappelle
2014-05-07 20:48 ` [Buildroot] [PATCH] dhcpdump: fix static build Peter Korsgaard

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