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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] cannot build qemu with "--static" configure option
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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Mr Dash Four <mr.dash.four@googlemail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

> > Do you have a static libgthread-2.0? (ie /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.a or
> > equivalent).
> Nope, this is what I have:
> 
> /usr/lib64/libgthread.so
> /usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so
> /usr/lib64/libgthread-1.2.so.0
> /usr/lib64/libgthread-1.2.so.0.0.10
> 
> *but*, just downloaded the source rpm and looked at the .spec file. It contains the following few lines in the %build section:
> 
> %configure --disable-static
> [...]
> ## Unpackaged files
> # info
> %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_infodir}
> # .la fies... die die die.
> %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/lib*.la
> # despite use of --disable-static, delete static libs that get built anyway
> %{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/lib*.a
> 
> 
> So, somebody at Fedora doesn't like static (.a) files very much, it seems. I could easily correct this, enable static building and have these installed, I think.

There's glib2-static in Fedora:

$ rpm -ql glib2-static
/usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.a
/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.a
/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.a
/usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.a
/usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.a

Thanks.
-- Max