FC 5 libraw1394 as static library

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Fri Apr 7 01:21:34 UTC 2006


Sébastien Sénégas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I enjoy with the libraw1394 that you support. But i am using now a FC 5 
> wich is distributed with the libraw1394 as shared library. So my 
> question is what should I do to get the library as static. Should I just 
> recompile it or there is a package existing directly built for this 
> distrib. I tried to get a package with yum but without any success.
> Could you help me please
> Sébastien
> 

It is generally against Fedora policy to ship static libraries in the 
distribution so we have been actively removing them over time.  In the 
vast majority of cases supported by the Fedora distribution, static 
libraries are actually not needed and programs that linked them in can 
be easily modified to link to the dynamic library.

If you are using the static library for some less usual case like 
embedded systems or profiling, then you should build your own static 
library from source manually.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com




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