Re: [Xmlstar-devel] [PATCH] Fix static linking problem with libgcrypt

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<tho...@fr...> wrote:
> When libgcrypt is used, it is linked with libgpg-error, so we should
> also test that libgpg-error is available, and include -lgpg-error in
> the LIBS variable.

Thanks, applied.

https://sourceforge.net/p/xmlstar/code/ci/0380e4d1e2d02aec868b7199e71bbe56e8161223/

>
> Note that using PKG_CHECK_MODULES() would be a much much better
> replacement than this complicated handling of static libraries, but
> it's a much more significant effort.

I don't think PKG_CHECK_MODULES() handles static libraries. Unless you
did ./configure --enable-static-libs you will be using shared
libraries anyway which don't need any of these checks.