Bug 462322

Summary: pango-devel.x86_64 does not provide static libraries (archives)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: rep.dot.nop
Component: pangoAssignee: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 5.2CC: pnemade
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Description rep.dot.nop 2008-09-15 12:22:28 UTC
Description of problem:

$ rpm -ql pango-devel.x86_64 | egrep "\.a$" || echo none
none


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

$ rpm -q pango-devel.x86_64 --%{version}, %{release}\n"
1.14.9, 3.el5
$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
# yum update
Loading "rhnplugin" plugin
rhel-x86_64-server-5      100% |=========================| 1.4 kB    00:00     
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update


How reproducible:

$ yum install pango-devel.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install pango-devel.x86_64
2. ls {,/usr}/lib64/*pango*.a
3.
  
Actual results:


Expected results:

debian[1]:~$ dpkg -L libpango1.0-dev | egrep \\.a$
/usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.a
/usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.a
/usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.a
/usr/lib/libpango-1.0.a
/usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.a

Additional info:

packaging issue

Comment 1 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-09-15 17:51:20 UTC
We don't provide static libraries for most of the packages now.  For pango specifically they don't work anyway as pango uses runtime modules for most of the work.