[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#973387: Bug#973387: does debian's libclang-dev support static linking?

[peter green]

Severity 973387 normal
Retitle 973387 rust-bindgen cannot be built with "static" feature.

On 29/10/2020 19:44, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le 29/10/2020 à 20:39, peter green a écrit :
>> I was looking at an autopkgtest failure in rust-bindgen. The failure happened when when testing with the "static"
>> feature. It appears the failure was caused by a lack of libclang.a
> We should disable this test in bindgen probably.
I have gone ahead and done that for now, but I find shipping binary packages for featuresets that can't actually be
built questionable. In the longer term IMO it should be either fixed or dropped.