[Buildroot] host-pkgconf: use --static option for static builds

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Sat, 03 May 2014 00:00:03 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> On 01/05/14 15:51, Vicente Olivert Riera wrote:
> > I was talking with ThomasP about the same thing. He told me that it has huge
> > consequences and can't be committed easily, because it affects how almost all
> > packages are built in a BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB=y build.
> 
>  That's a bit a strange argument... If it doesn't get committed, it will never
> be tested. We have a month to fix autobuilder failures, that should be enough, no?

Well, it would at least be good to have a preliminary testing with a
fairly large set of packages enabled, in a BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB=y
configuration, to check that things are still working OK after applying
this patch. Not a 100% coverage, but at least testing a few dozens of
packages.

Thomas
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