[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] Configure: use static linking if our contribs are used

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2016-06-29 16:08, Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> On 29 Jun, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote :
>> Le 2016-06-29 15:56, git at videolan.org a écrit :
>> > vlc | branch: master | Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb at videolan.org> | Wed
>> > Jun 29 15:44:40 2016 +0200| 
>> [73b6ba35c70d93a57ddaec6e3a31164e60db53e2]
>> > | committer: Jean-Baptiste Kempf
>> >
>> > Configure: use static linking if our contribs are used
>> >
>> > Since our contribs are statically linked
>>
>> This breaks very badly when mixing distro and contrib packages. 
>> Linux builds
>> are unusable with this patch. Please revert.
>
> Ah good point. I was trying with only contribs.
>
> Any great idea on how to do it?

There simply are _no_ good ways to achieve it. pkg-config assumes that 
the shared version of a module library is always provided, while the 
static version is optional. When building the static version only, it 
just fails.

Use pkg-static.sh.

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