On 2011-07-07 Marcin Owsiany <porri...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 07:57:12PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> On 2011-07-06 Marcin Owsiany <porri...@debian.org> wrote: >>> Package: libgnutls-dev >>> Version: 2.10.5-2 >>> Severity: normal
>>> It is not possible to staticly link the following sample program while >>> depending on the information provided by pkg-config, because the pkg-config >>> file for gnutls only lists -lgcrypt, but not its static dependencies. [...] >> True. However since gcrypt does not provide a pkg-config file (not >> wanted upstream) there is no elegant way to fix this. I guess we will >> end up hardcoding gcrypt's static depends in gnutls' ./configure. > Perhaps they could reconsider if you explain the rationale with this as > an example? Hello, It is a pretty weak argument, as gnutls nowadays prefers nettle over gcrypt and has dropped gcrypt support in git HEAD. > Alternatively, maybe the gcrypt Debian package maintainer could > distribute the pkgconfig file? That would at least be a better place > than gnutls... That would be me. ;-) I think patching gnutls will be less work both in the short and the long term, a gnutls patch has good chances of being merged upstream. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
