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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Subject: Re: Missing linker flags when statically linking
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:17:12 +0200
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Hello,

On Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:45:13 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:

> >> Also any reasons you are using Libs.private instead of Package.private?  
> > Libs.private is used to add flags for static linking. The dynamic linker
> > shouldn't need a hint since libaudit its already linked to libcap-ng.  
> 
> I was talking about Package*.private* not package itself. 
> Package.private is the equivalent to Libs.private but for libs that also 
> have a .pc file

Agreed. When possible, Package.private should be preferred over
Libs.private.

Thomas
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