Re: Missing linker flags when statically linking
On Sunday, July 10, 2016 10:45:13 AM EDT Laurent Bigonville wrote:
Le 09/07/16 à 23:41, Steve Grubb a écrit :
> On Saturday, July 9, 2016 11:02:44 PM EDT Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>> Apparently the fix is not 100% correct:
>>
>> The "Libs.private" field should be _after_ the Libs one in the .pc
file,
>> otherwise the ordering of the libraries is not OK during liking:
>>
>> -lcap-ng -laudit
>>
>> it should be: -laudit -lcap-ng instead.
>
> OK, I switched the order.
Thanks
>> Also any reasons you are using Libs.private instead of Package.private?
>
> Libs.private is used to add flags for static linking. The dynamic linker
> shouldn't need a hint since libaudit its already linked to libcap-ng.
I was talking about Package*.private* not package itself.
Package.private is the equivalent to Libs.private but for libs that also
have a .pc file
Do you mean Requires.private? (I don't see Package.private documented in the
man page.) That takes a package name which is not available from the m4 macro
that libcap-ng provides. I think what this means is that I should switch from
using m4 to pkg-config which means reworking configure.ac and the Makefiles.am
wherever libcap-ng is used. I'll look into this, but I think in the meantime
what's in svn generally works. libcap-ng is most likley built with the same
flags that audit is.
-Steve