[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] qwt: compile as a static lib if QT_SHARED is not selected

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 25/01/15 23:20, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> writes:
[snip]
>  > I think we should get rid of BR2_PACKAGE_QT_SHARED completely, and use
>  > BR2_STATIC_LIBS here instead.
> 
> I agree that it would be cleaner, but the reason the explicit QT_SHARED
> stuff was added was afaik a lot of systems only needed Qt in a single
> application / that application only used a subset of the Qt
> functionality, so having a static libQt while everything else was shared
> was quite a big win in size / startup time.

 But can't you just build with BR2_SHARED_STATIC_LIBS and link your application
with --static? That's what BR2_SHARED_STATIC_LIBS was meant for, right?

 Regards,
 Arnout


> 
> It does complicate LGPL compliance and I don't know if the disk space
> concerns are as big these days though.
> 


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