Re: Question about gpsd library/linking for an external gpsd client?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Thu, 04 Jun 2020 15:00:27 -0400
Greg Troxel <gdt@lexort.com> wrote:

> "Gary E. Miller" <gem@rellim.com> writes:
> 
> > Yo Curtis!
> >
> > On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 11:47:03 -0500
> > Curtis Olson <curtolson@flightgear.org> wrote:  
> >> scons install doesn't seem to install libgps.a.  
> >
> > Correct, by default.  Because the default is to build and install
> > the shared libgps.so.
> >
> > Distros hate static libs.  
> 
> Linux distributions perhaps.  pkgsrc, following BSD norms, more or
> less expects there to be both a .a  and a .so, so that users who are
> linking however they want.  I checked one of my boxes and
> /usr/pkg/lib has 124 .a files and 126 .so.
> 
> It is true that packaging systems do not want things *in the packaging
> system* to link with static libs or to build copies of things that
> should be packages.

You're gonna love Go.  :-)

> > Maybe gpsd should have the option for both instead of either or.
> >
> > If you want libgps.a, set shared=false when you configure gpsd.  
> 
> That seems to turn off .so, or at least that's what it says.  Really
> there should be a staticlib=true even if it defaults to off, that
> doesn't disable shlibs.

Yeah, they need to be independent.  I'll work on that after I find
where the .so went.

RGDS
GARY
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