On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Marc-André Lureau <mlureau@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> > >> > Hi >> > >> > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Frediano Ziglio <fziglio@xxxxxxxxxx> >> > wrote: >> > > You are not... convenient library should not be linked to programs! >> > > Is in libtool documentation. >> > >> > https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Static-libraries.html >> > "The key is remembering that a convenience library contains PIC >> > objects, and can be linked where a list of PIC objects makes sense; >> > i.e. into a shared library. A static convenience library contains >> > non-PIC objects, so can be linked into an old static library, or a >> > program. " >> > >> >> Yes, I was referring to this. >> >> > Having -static or not doesn't change the result. All objects are >> > compiled with -fPIC. And ar of PIC objects + ld/elf is fine linking a >> > program or a library that way. Searching a bit over the web, it seems >> > to be a common practice for quite a while. Do we care so much about >> > other non-elf compilers/linkers that could in theory have issues? Even >> > win32 dll are fine with this (I created a small project to test this >> > attached). Do you know an arch/compiler that wouldn't support this? >> > >> > What are the alternatives? To compile the library twice and pass all >> > the needed library flags when linking? I don't think we need to do all >> > that for something hypotetical we can't test. >> > >> >> Why using a static library is so bad? >> Here would be perfect and working on all possible (and impossible) platforms. > > That's worse, you get a warning from libtool: > > libspice_server_la_LIBADD = libserver.a > > CCLD libspice-server.la > *** Warning: Linking the shared library libspice-server.la against the > *** static library libserver.a is not portable! > Furthermore, as I tried to explain before: - mixing libtool and non-libtool libs is recipe for more issues than using all libtool - libtool lib carry all the flags needed to link against the lib, this avoid duplicating the libserver flags around >> >> Frediano >> _______________________________________________ >> Spice-devel mailing list >> Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel >> -- Marc-André Lureau _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel