Re: [PATCH][RFC] Allow linking from custom staticlib.a instead of list of object files

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jan 8, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Guy Harris wrote:

> You might want to call it ARCHIVELIBS, by analogy to LIBS.

Another possibility, if the routines are in an installed library, would be to just add that library to LIBS.  The 
shared libpcap will be linked with all the libraries in LIBS, so programs linked with the shared libpcap will pick up 
the shared versions of those libraries, and programs whose build procedures use the new-in-1.0.0 pcap-config script if 
it's available (top-of-tree tcpdump and Wireshark both do; I'll check whether Wireshark 1.2.x does, and, if not, look 
at backporting that) will, for a static build, link with the library if you pass --static to pcap-config.

Note that top-of-tree libpcap, on Linux systems that have libnl, will use routines from it unless you explicitly use 
--without-libnl, so it already requires additional libraries on at least some platforms.
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