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Use libtool to build static archives when --with-static-prpls is passed
to configure. Does anyone know why we weren't using libtool before? We
were building old-fashioned .a files. But libtool archives (.la) can
contain either static or shared libraries.
I found it a lot easier to get static prpl compilation working after
making this change (that is to say, it worked). Without this I got this
error, which is probably fixable, but consistently using libtool seems
like it makes things easier:
*** Warning: Linking the shared library libpurple.la against the
*** static library ../libpurple/protocols/msn/libmsn.a is not portable!
/usr/bin/ld: ../libpurple/protocols/msn/libmsn.a(libmsn_a-msn.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
../libpurple/protocols/msn/libmsn.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
author | Mark Doliner <mark@kingant.net> |
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date | Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:30:51 +0000 |
parents | 83ec0b408926 |
children | db5a58aabe38 |
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For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API. From there, see the HOWTOs in the "Related Pages" section. You can also generate this documentation locally by installing doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the source tree. The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.