[Pkg-pascal-devel] wattsi - how to fix lintian error "statically-linked-binary"

[Peter Blackman]

On 25/04/2026 08:05, Fab Stz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Could someone of the pascal team please answer to my packaging question below?
> 
> Regards
> Fab
> 
> Le dimanche 12 avril 2026, 11:51:16 heure d’été d’Europe centrale Fab Stz a écrit :
>> Dear team,
>>
>> I'm trying to package "wattsi" but lintian complains that the binary is statically linked:
>>
>> E: wattsi: statically-linked-binary [usr/bin/wattsi]
>>
>> I'm struggling at making it dynamically linked.
>>

Hi Fab,

The build log from your Salsa pipeline contains several lines such as

"settings.inc(43,4) Note: DWARF debug information cannot be used with smart linking on this target, switching to static linking"


Does smart linking really make a significant difference to the exe size?
If not, suggest drop it.

(I fixed a similar issue on one of my packages by switching debug info to -gw4)

Regards,
Peter