[Zlib-devel] [PATCH] mingw zlib import library name

[Volker Grabsch]

Enrico Weigelt <weigelt at metux.de> schrieb:
> * John Bowler <jbowler at frontiernet.net> schrieb:
> 
> > -config files support static linking, because -config files 
> > have a '--static' option, but it doesn't necessarily do 
> > what you might expect; I just checked:
> > 
> > libpng-config --libs
> > 	-lpng15
> > 
> > libpng-config --static --libs
> > 	-lpng15 -lz
> 
> Well, looks funny ;-o

Looks perfectly correct to me.

> BTW: i'd consider the *-config scripts deprecated over pkg-config,
> since they're harder to masquerade (eg. for crosscompiling). 
> w/ pkg-config you have a generic mechanism, so the build machinery
> has only one central point to cut into.

+1.

I avoid the *-config scripts as much as possible, because in
cross-compiling encironments they almost always cause trouble.
I'm so glad that nowadays most packages use pkg-config.


Greets,

    Volker

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