Subject: Re: libssh2.pc lacks Requires

Re: libssh2.pc lacks Requires

From: Vincent Torri <vincent.torri_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:48:54 +0200

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Mikhail Gusarov
<dottedmag_at_dottedmag.net> wrote:
>
> Twas brillig at 01:18:27 23.04.2012 UTC+02 when lists_at_gknw.net did gyre and gimble:
>
>  >> .private (both for Libs and Requires) is shown when pkg-config is run
>  >> with --static.
>  G> then we should just duplicate it and have both, or?
>
> No.
>
> If the library is exposed in Libs/Requires, then the client of shared
> version libssh2 is becoming linked to this library, which is a bad thing
> (e.g. see http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Overlinking ).

Right. I post here a discussion i had in the pkg-config list with the
same problem : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pkg-config/2010-June/000604.html

Vincent Torri

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