[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] define private libs properly in pkgconfig files

[Aurelien Jacobs]

Anssi Hannula wrote:

> j at v2v.cc wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 04:46 +0300, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> > 
> >> If you are linking statically, you have to use '--static' option of
> >> pkg-config. Then all libraries are printed.
> > 
> > how can i do that with ?PKG_CHECK_MODULES?
> > pkg-config does not seam to check or know if only static linking
> > is possible. by default ffmpeg does not install shared libs.
> 
> Indeed, PKG_CHECK_MODULES does not know that.

And thus, PKG_CHECK_MODULES have to be fixed to support static libs.
(aren't you starting to feel the autotools ugliness ? ;-)

> So I guess the way to make it behave correctly is indeed to not make
> $name-uninstalled.pc use Libs.private and only make $name.pc use
> Libs.private when the shared library is created.

That's wrong. Both $name-uninstalled.pc and $name.pc can be used
to link with static as well as shared libs if both are built.

Current .pc files seems to be OK. The actual bug is in
PKG_CHECK_MODULES.

Aurel