[Bug 225804] Merge Review: glib2

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Summary: Merge Review: glib2


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225804





------- Additional Comments From jpo at di.uminho.pt  2007-02-03 16:26 EST -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> > One package that needs the glib2 static library is syslog-ng v2 (a sysklogd
> > replacement).
> 
> I'd consider that a bug of syslog-ng. I did remove the static libraries from
> glib2 during the FC6 devel cycle, and then various people came out of the woods
> and admitted that they had linked to glib2 statically (some initscripts things,
> and at least one pam module). That was the reason we moved glib2 to /lib, so 
> that we can stop shipping 5 statically linked copies of glib in /bin. But then
> Jeremy said that static glib libraries are also needed for anaconda. Since it is
> much harder to avoid static linking there, the static libaries were added back.

Syslog-ng v2 links glib2 and eventlog statically by default. There is a 
configure option to enable the dynamic linking of the above libraries.
I will try it and also try to have the eventlog dynamic library installed
in /lib.
 
> I would be willing to move the static libraries to a -static subpackage if that
> helps.
>
> One bug relevant to this is bug 191678. 

Thanks for the reference.

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