Bug 500201
| Summary: | fltk doesn't support static linking | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Hugues Talbot <hugues.talbot> |
| Component: | fltk | Assignee: | Rex Dieter <rdieter> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | pertusus, rdieter |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | 1.1.9-4.fc10 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-06-02 14:34:20 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Hugues Talbot
2009-05-11 16:33:16 UTC
Why, are you trying to link statically? Here's some background on removing the extraneous stuff, bug #199656 Anyway, before you ask or comment, yes, the static linking case is fubar :), The static libs would likely be omitted altogether here, except that the -config script has some hard-coded uses of it still, so breaks if they are absent. Yes I usually link FLTK statically. The library is small and lightweight meant to be used that way. The idea is to produce portable GUI applications across distributions.
From the opening page of www.fltk.org
> FLTK is designed to be small and modular enough to be statically linked
Thanks for looking into this
Problem being is that every fltk-dependent library must also support static linking, which may or may not be the case in fedora. I'll check. In the meantime, adjusting summary accordingly. Static X libraries are not provided in Fedora. However they are very ABI stable. In fact glibc, even linked statically needs a somewhat recent kernel and should be more problematic than shared X libs -- as long as the compiler doesn't introduce binary incompatibilities. When I asked for static X libs some time ago I was turned down, I could search for the bug number if you are interested. I don't now about other libs. Indeed, I have this smallish image display application using FLTK which I ship to people. What I usually do is link statically as much as I can, eg libstdc++, tiff, png, jpg, imagemagick etc, but I leave X11 and glibc as dynamic. The resulting build is usually quite portable across distributions. The upshot is that statically linking to FLTK is indeed useful, even if the whole build is mostly dynamic. If all the libraries other than X and libc can be linked statically, then it seems to me that a static fltk (in a separate subpackage) should be provided. But a static FLTK library is already provided. It's just the /usr/bin/fltk-config script that's broken. Very easy to fix too: maintainers simply don't edit that file post installation. If there is a rational explanation for the editing out of the lines I gave in the original report I'd like to hear it :-) Because the extra libs aren't needed, even in the static linking case (if libtool archives are included). The only reason the static lib remains is because the fltk-config file is busted (even in the dynamic linking case) without it. OK, let's back up a step. Can you give me a sample test program that fails to compile using the output of: fltk-config --ldstaticflags but *works* with fltk-config --ldflags ? I think I've found a solution (for fltk anyway), to make fltk-config --ldstaticflags return something more sane. Please test this build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1352820 OK, this one should have a better chance of actually building: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1352833 Hello Rex, Thanks for the new build, with the correct fltk-config --ldstaticflags output I've only tried the prebuild fltk from the linked page (ie fltk-1.1.9-4.fc10, with associated devel and fluid packages) This works fine for me, thanks ! Should I try building the fltk src package ? Also, Fedora 11 suffers from the same problem, are you going to propagate this fix to that version too ? Do you still need an example for comment #12 ? The test programs shipping with fltk ought to do the trick I guess. Building the new source RPM works at my end, with the desired results. Thanks again. I included a bunch of other overdue fixes as well, so I plan on pushing an update pretty much everywhere (F9, F10, F11, EL4, EL5). fltk-1.1.9-4.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fltk-1.1.9-4.fc9 fltk-1.1.9-4.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fltk-1.1.9-4.fc10 fltk-1.1.9-4.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fltk-1.1.9-4.fc11 fltk-1.1.9-4.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update fltk'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F10/FEDORA-2009-4994 fltk-1.1.9-4.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. fltk-1.1.9-4.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. fltk-1.1.9-4.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |