Re: Private libraries incorrectly passed to command line when linking dynamically

These patches seem to rely on your patched version of xml2-config, so we 
should get your xml2-config changes upstreamed first.

Nick


On 26/06/2019 13:51, Hugh McMaster via xslt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> libxslt.pc, libexslt.pc and xslt-config all incorrectly pass private
> library dependencies (such as libm and libgcrypt) to the command line
> when linking dynamically. This causes un-necessary dependencies to be
> created.
> 
> For many years, Debian has patched libxslt to avoid this problem. In
> libxslt's pkg-config files, M_LIBS and LIBGCRYPT_LIBS are moved to the
> Libs.private field, where they will only be passed to the command line
> if --static is passed to pkg-config.
> 
> In xslt-config, Debian patches the source to add a new switch,
> --static, which combines with --libs to output the dependencies
> required for static linking. Private dependencies are not passed to
> the command line when --libs is invoked as normal.
> 
> This problem was identified as still present when patching upstream
> PHP 7.4 to use libxslt's pkg-config files.
> 
> Patches are available in a merge request #3 on Gitlab [1].
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hugh