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

[marco atzeri]

Il 10/17/2013 11:40 PM, Susi Lehtola ha scritto:
> Quoting marco atzeri :
>> 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..


static are basically dropped from all the packages:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2012-04/msg00006.html

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