Bug 197040 - qt4: -static package
Summary: qt4: -static package
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qt4
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-06-28 09:03 UTC by Adrien Bustany
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-08-01 14:38:46 UTC
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Description Adrien Bustany 2006-06-28 09:03:53 UTC
Description of problem:
It would be nice to have a qt4-static package, so that you can produce
statically linked apps just by adding the 'static' keyword in the project file.
This would be useful because qt4 is not that widespread today among linux
distributions.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2006-06-28 11:37:26 UTC
I have to be honest, this is less than likely.  Fedora Packaging standards
strongly discourage packaging/using static libs.

Comment 2 Adrien Bustany 2006-06-28 11:41:55 UTC
Are Fedora people aware that we develop software not only for Fedora users ? I'm
OK for not using static libs in fedora packages, but providing it for
development would be useful...
Anyway, thanks for your answer and your work on qt4 :)

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2006-08-01 14:38:46 UTC
Static linking just isn't possible, without a reverse of policy in Packaging 
Guidelines, and without support for static linking from all dependant 
libraries, including (at least): zlib, glib2, dbus, nas, fontconfig, freetype, 
libjpeg, libmng, libpng (and X?).  Neither of these prereq's are likely to 
happen in Fedora soon (if ever).


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