Re: gnulib and static libraries

[Simon Josefsson]

"Bruno Haible" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
>> In this case, GnuTLS uses the read-file module from gnulib, and it ends
>> up being exported in a static GnuTLS library.  GNU Wget also has a
>> function called read_file, and things break when linking.
>> ...
>> I have some vague memory that this has been discussed before (I may even
>> have brought it up)
>
> Yes, we discussed this topic in the thread started in
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2007-04/msg00232.html>.
>
> I had been pointing you to gettext/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/Makefile.am;
> nowadays the same technique is also used in libunistring/lib/Makefile.am.
> In particular, look at this commit:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunistring.git;a=commitdiff;h=d598f9e1e016735397e9dca53b436d13c6fb28f3

Thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look!

/Simon