[Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#375815: Dropping indirect dependencies from libgnutls-config --libs

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 07:38:56PM +0200, Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> currently "libgnutls-config --libs"' output looks like this,
> -L/usr/lib -lgnutls -L/usr/lib -ltasn1 -lgcrypt -lgpg-error
> listing both direct (-lgnutls) and indirect dependencies. - Its output
> can be used for static linking.
> 
> I am pondering (and have now been asked by bts) on changing this to
> only say -lgnutls for Debian, which is enough for dynamic linking. -
> Static linking would be broken except for
> a) libtool using packages (.la lists the indirect dependencies)
> or
> b) packages using pkg-config --libs --static to get the indirect
> dependencies[1]

I got a similar report on libxml2, which suggested the use of
xml2-config --libs to get the direct libs and xml2-config --libs
--static to get everything. Same semantics as pkg-config.

Mike