** Changed in: yajl (Debian)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
Static library for libyajl is "libyajl_s.a" and pkg-config lies about
it
Status in yajl package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in yajl package in Debian:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The static library for libyajl-dev is installed as /usr/lib/x86_64
-linux-gnu/libyajl_s.a and not /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libyajl.a.
This means that static linking with "-lyajl" will not find it; you
need to use "-lyajl_s".
This has not been explained to pkg-config (and I suspect the pkg-
config file format can't express it). So when you do "pkg-config
--static --libs yajl", you get back "-lyajl" and not "-lyajl_s". You
also get the erroneous "-lyajl" when you ask pkg-config about anything
that *depends* on yajl, such as raptor2:
$ pkg-config --libs --static raptor2
-lraptor2 -lcurl -lxml2 -lxslt -lxml2 -lyajl
This makes pkg-config not work for linking statically against any
library that depends on yajl.
The Debian bug for this problem is at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-
bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877285 and has been sitting idel for several
months. I've also opened an upstream bug at
https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/issues/209 but the upstream project
seems suspiciously quiet, and I think the upstream maintainer may have
quit.
I believe the actual problem with the upstream code is at
https://github.com/lloyd/yajl/blob/5e3a7856e643b4d6410ddc3f84bc2f38174f2872/src/CMakeLists.txt#L38-L40
where CMake is told to build a static library and a dynamic library
with different names. (This might be necessary on Windows, but nobody
knows how to deal with it in Linux.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: libyajl-dev 2.1.0-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-124.148-generic 4.4.117
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-124-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.17
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue May 22 12:37:28 2018
Dependencies:
gcc-6-base 6.2.0-3ubuntu11~12.04 [origin: unknown]
libc6 2.23-0ubuntu10
libgcc1 1:6.2.0-3ubuntu11~12.04 [origin: unknown]
libyajl2 2.1.0-2
multiarch-support 2.23-0ubuntu10
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-18 (1859 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120425)
SourcePackage: yajl
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2018-02-26 (85 days ago)
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