[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/7] build/pkg-config: improve static linking flags

[Luca Boccassi]

On Wed, 2020-04-29 at 11:08 +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Rather than setting -Bstatic in the linker flags when doing a static link,
> and then having to explicitly set -Bdynamic again afterwards, we can update
> the pkg-config file to use -l:libfoo.a syntax to explicitly refer to the
> static library in question. Since this syntax is not supported by meson's
> pkg-config module directly, we can post-process the .pc files instead to
> adjust them.
> 
> Once done, we can simplify the examples' makefiles and the docs by removing
> the explicit static flag

This sounds like a worthwhile feature request for Meson to me. Would
you be up for opening an RFE on their issue tracker explaining the use
case, please?

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Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi