Libguestfs - Sep 2021 - [hivex PATCH 7/8] build: link hivex statically into C programs compiled against build dir

This static-only linking allows the libguestfs daemon ("guestfsd") to
launch in the appliance, without unresolved hivex symbols, when libguestfs
is built against the hivex build dir. (Libguestfs's automatic *package*
collection for the appliance, based on the shared library requirements of
"guestfsd", cannot cover hivex when hivex is provided by a local build
directory.)

Linking hivex statically into *host-side* C programs that are compiled
against the hivex build dir is only a small penalty.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
---
 lib/local/hivex.pc.in | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/local/hivex.pc.in b/lib/local/hivex.pc.in
index d899cb01a282..6f0b5bb44237 100644
--- a/lib/local/hivex.pc.in
+++ b/lib/local/hivex.pc.in
@@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ Version: @VERSION@
 Description: Read and write Windows Registry Hive files.
 Requires:
 Cflags: -I${includedir}
-Libs: -L${libdir} -lhivex
+Libs: -L${libdir} -l:libhivex.a
-- 
2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 03:27:57PM +0200, Laszlo Ersek
wrote:
> This static-only linking allows the libguestfs daemon
("guestfsd") to
> launch in the appliance, without unresolved hivex symbols, when libguestfs
> is built against the hivex build dir. (Libguestfs's automatic *package*
> collection for the appliance, based on the shared library requirements of
> "guestfsd", cannot cover hivex when hivex is provided by a local
build
> directory.)
> 
> Linking hivex statically into *host-side* C programs that are compiled
> against the hivex build dir is only a small penalty.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> ---
>  lib/local/hivex.pc.in | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/local/hivex.pc.in b/lib/local/hivex.pc.in
> index d899cb01a282..6f0b5bb44237 100644
> --- a/lib/local/hivex.pc.in
> +++ b/lib/local/hivex.pc.in
> @@ -32,4 +32,4 @@ Version: @VERSION@
>  Description: Read and write Windows Registry Hive files.
>  Requires:
>  Cflags: -I${includedir}
> -Libs: -L${libdir} -lhivex
> +Libs: -L${libdir} -l:libhivex.a
Worth a comment here in the .pc.in file?  I was previously not aware
this magic was possible.

Rich.
> 2.19.1.3.g30247aa5d201
> 
> 
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