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[Thomas Petazzoni]

Hello,

On Mon, 16 May 2016 13:23:44 +0100, Martin Bark wrote:

> > And indeed, it has been merged half an hour ago. However, I'm wondering
> > why you have not used pkg-config instead. The drawback of -lgcrypt
> > -lgpg-error is that now, even in dynamic linking situations, the
> > iputils binary has a direct reference to libgpg-error.  
> 
> yes my first thought was to use libgrypt-config but in the end I
> decided to keep it simple because iputils only has a basic Makefile
> with no configure script.  It's the same situation we had with linking
> against the libm.  I going to asking the maintainer if they would
> accept a change to add a cmake or autotools build system so solve this
> kind of issue neatly.

Well, going all the way to autotools or cmake is not really necessary
to solve these problems. You can just call pkg-config from a Makefile:

LDFLAGS = $(shell pkg-config --libs libgcrypt)

and that's it. No?

Thomas
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