Bug 85187 - gnome2 library chain has no static libraries
Summary: gnome2 library chain has no static libraries
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glib2
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Owen Taylor
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-02-26 13:50 UTC by Frank Belew (frb)
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-02-26 14:42:52 UTC
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Description Frank Belew (frb) 2003-02-26 13:50:55 UTC
Description of problem:
There are no static libraries for any of the packages in the gnome2 library set.
This includes glib2

I'd be happy even if they were in a separate package  such as glib2-static

Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2003-02-26 14:42:52 UTC
$ rpm -qpl glib2-devel-2.2.1-1.i386.rpm | grep '\.a'
/usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a
/usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.a
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.a
/usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.a

They are there for glib2. (As of relatively recently.) Above that,
it gets to be a huge PITA to do static libraries because of the
heavy use of dynamically loaded modules. Plus, Pango and GTK+
require various config files on the system for correct operation,
so it doesn't real give you the "distribute binary without library"
thing that people usually want static libs for.


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