Missing linker flags when statically linking

[Laurent Bigonville]

Le 09/07/16 à 23:41, Steve Grubb a écrit :
> On Saturday, July 9, 2016 11:02:44 PM EDT Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>> Le 05/07/16 à 14:15, Steve Grubb a écrit :
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Monday, July 4, 2016 2:08:14 PM EDT Laurent Bigonville wrote:
>>>> Apparently the audit.pc file is missing flags to allow libaudit to be
>>>> statically linked (see [0]).
>>>>
>>>> Adding something like "Requires.private: libcap-ng" should fix the
>>>> problem.
>>> OK. Fixed. There will be a new audit package release in a little while
>>> that
>>> has this fixed.
>> Apparently the fix is not 100% correct:
>>
>> The "Libs.private" field should be _after_ the Libs one in the .pc file,
>> otherwise the ordering of the libraries is not OK during liking:
>>
>> -lcap-ng -laudit
>>
>> it should be: -laudit -lcap-ng instead.
> OK, I switched the order.

Thanks

>> Also any reasons you are using Libs.private instead of Package.private?
> Libs.private is used to add flags for static linking. The dynamic linker
> shouldn't need a hint since libaudit its already linked to libcap-ng.

I was talking about Package*.private* not package itself. 
Package.private is the equivalent to Libs.private but for libs that also 
have a .pc file

> Also, anyone packaging up audit 2.6.4 will want to include this patch:
> https://fedorahosted.org/audit/changeset/1340

Thanks, I'll update the pkg in debian soon