Linking to static libraries, e.g. gsl and hdf5

[Susi Lehtola]

Quoting marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>:
> Il 10/17/2013 11:02 PM, Susi Lehtola ha scritto:
>> Indeed, the latter was true for the GSL and the HDF5 libraries, and
>> symlinking
>>
>> /usr/lib/libgsl.a -> /usr/lib/libgsl.dll.a
>> /usr/lib/libgslcblas.a -> /usr/lib/libgslcblas.dll.a
>> /usr/lib/libhdf5.a -> /usr/lib/libhdf5.dll.a
>>
>> solved the problem.
>>
>> Why is this not done in the gsl and hdf5 packages? Other packages might
>> also be affected.
>
> /usr/lib/libhdf5.dll.a is the dynamic library
> so the workaround is a contradiction of your target
> " Linking to static libraries"

Oh.. So it would seem that static libraries have been dropped from the  
GSL and HDF5 packages, although I didn't find any mention of it in the  
GSL update announcements at least..
-- 
Susi Lehtola
susi.lehtola@iki.fi


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