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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Linking failure in kdelibs4 with libagg
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2006-02-01 13:37:49
Message-ID: 200602011437.49586.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:41, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Craig Howard wrote:
> >Has anybody seen this one before?  I'm running x86-64 on debian.  This
> > is from a fresh checkout of trunk.  I've got the libagg-dev package
> > installed. Strangely enough, there is no libagg package!  So, I don't
> > have libagg.so  Is this library designed to only be statically linked?
> > Or is that causing my problem?  I've tried configure both with and
> > without --with-pic  I tried building from source, but that did not
> > produce a shared library either.
>
> You cannot build a shared library linking to a static library. There's no
> way around it.

 Actually, strictly speaking, you can, code for shared libraries has to be 
PIC. Which is usually not the case with static libraries.

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