Bug#632891: missing -lgpg-error in gnutls.pc:Libs.private

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Thu Jul 7 17:57:12 UTC 2011


On 2011-07-06 Marcin Owsiany <porridge at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: libgnutls-dev
> Version: 2.10.5-2
> Severity: normal

> It is not possible to staticly link the following sample program while
> depending on the information provided by pkg-config, because the pkg-config
> file for gnutls only lists -lgcrypt, but not its static dependencies.
[...]

Hello,
True. However since gcrypt does not provide a pkg-config file (not
wanted upstream) there is no elegant way to fix this. I guess we will
end up hardcoding gcrypt's static depends in gnutls' ./configure.
Ouch.

cu andreas





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