[arch-dev-public] [signoff] libarchive 2.7.1-1

[Xavier]

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Xavier schrieb:
>>
>> it is written in the pkgbuild :
>> # pacman.static build fails unless we keep the libtool files (or unless we
>> link
>> # the missing symbols inside the libarchive .a static lib, but that is
>> dirty)
>> options=(libtool)
>>
>> though pacman.static is no longer in pacman package, but afaik there
>> is a pacman-static package on aur.
>>
>> it seems there are also a few other packages depending on libarchive,
>> and I don't know about them. But I don't think doing static build is
>> the common case.
>
> Why does it work for other libraries then, but not for libarchive? We barely
> have .la files on the system.
>
>

According to JGC, a proper way to build statically without .la file is
to use pkgconfig.
but libarchive does not provide a pkgconfig file either.
I tried to write one, but as I have no experience and knowledge about
this stuff, I am hesitant to send this work to libarchive maintainers.

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here is the automatically generated libarchive.pc file :

prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include

Name: libarchive
Description: library that can create and read several streaming archive formats
Version: 2.7.1
Libs: -larchive
Libs.private: -lacl -lattr -lcrypto -llzma -lbz2 -lz

and here is the libarchive patch to generate it :

diff -uNr libarchive-2.7.1/Makefile.am libarchive-2.7.1-new/Makefile.am
--- libarchive-2.7.1/Makefile.am        2009-07-21 17:05:40.000000000 +0200
+++ libarchive-2.7.1-new/Makefile.am    2009-08-30 18:39:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -200,6 +200,10 @@
       libarchive/README               \
       $(libarchive_man_MANS)

+# pkgconfig
+pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
+pkgconfig_DATA = libarchive.pc
+
 #
 #
 # libarchive_test program
diff -uNr libarchive-2.7.1/configure.ac libarchive-2.7.1-new/configure.ac
--- libarchive-2.7.1/configure.ac       2009-08-05 07:22:16.000000000 +0200
+++ libarchive-2.7.1-new/configure.ac   2009-08-30 18:43:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@

 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([libarchive.pc])

 # Check for host type
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
--- libarchive-2.7.1/libarchive.pc.in   1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ libarchive-2.7.1-new/libarchive.pc.in       2009-08-30
18:45:05.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+prefix=@prefix@
+exec_prefix=@exec_prefix@
+libdir=@libdir@
+includedir=@includedir@
+
+Name: libarchive
+Description: library that can create and read several streaming archive formats
+Version: @VERSION@
+Libs: -larchive
+Libs.private: @LIBS@