[Buildroot] About static linking

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 24/04/14 17:23, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:
> 
>  > 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?
> 
> It would certainly be nice to get these things handled upstream, but
> it's similar to the special-archs/nommu/uClibc stuff, E.G. not something
> "normal" people gets affected by (and something we have decided to
> support), so I don't think there's much else we can do.

 Still, I expect that upstreams are more likely to be willing to accept
patches for linking against a static library than patches for exotic
systems. Especially since the former is usually only a config patch,
while the special-archs/nommu/uClibc stuff is more likely to affect the
code itself.

 Regards,
 Arnout


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