Bug 466814

Summary:	Include static library?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Matt Fago <fago>
Component:	gdal	Assignee:	Balint Cristian <cristian.balint>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	9	CC:	cristian.balint, pertusus
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Description Matt Fago 2008-10-13 19:22:01 UTC

This is an enhancement request:

It would be really great if you could include a static library of gdal. Perhaps as part of the gdal-devel.i386 and gdal-devel.x86_64 packages.

Note this would necessitate static libraries of all of the dependencies as well...

Thanks,
Matt

Comment 1 Patrice Dumas 2008-10-13 20:38:30 UTC

Static libs go into -static package, like gdal-static. 
The dependencies are independent packages, so you'll have to convince
maintainers for all dependencies, and gdal has a lot of them.
It is possible to ship gdal-static, though, and you can link against a 
static gdal while other libs are not static.

Why do you want static libraries?

Comment 2 Matt Fago 2008-10-14 02:02:13 UTC

I work on several codes that link against gdal. It is very difficult to make sure to satisfy all of the required dependencies (as you say, there are very many) when I am not able for other reasons to use a sane installation method (rpm, etc). I would appreciate a static gdal, but it seems that it might be best for me to just compile gdal myself as a static lib.

Thanks,
Matt

Comment 3 Balint Cristian 2008-10-21 10:18:41 UTC

Ok. Lets do it, i'll take the task.

A -static could be usefull for some people, myself hitted the issue.

i will propose here a package, lets see/test how it works and fit to fedora
requirements.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-10-24 12:46:15 UTC

gdal-1.5.3-1.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gdal-1.5.3-1.fc9

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-10-24 23:51:17 UTC

gdal-1.5.3-1.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.