mingw32-opensc package

Kalev Lember kalev at smartlink.ee
Mon Mar 23 18:31:50 UTC 2009


Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> Op maandag 23-03-2009 om 19:25 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Kalev
> Lember:
>   
>> 1) Is there any good reason to package libtool .la files? I've excluded
>> them right now, but I saw some of them in the spec files from HG repo.
>>     
>
> Yes there is. It is necessary for libtool to find out what the
> dependencies are of libraries (for example, when linking some
> application against glib, you also need to link against gettext). This
> is especially the case when using static libraries. Another reason for
> it is so that libtool can find the .dll (in ../bin) which belongs to
> the .dll.a import library.
>   

Thank you for a good explanation. I'll update the spec file and include
.la files too.

>> 2) I couldn't get configure script to detect libiconv and added a
>> workaround to the spec file:
>> export ICONV_LIBS="-liconv"
>> %{_mingw32_configure}
>>
>> Is it acceptable like that?
>>     
>
> Could you post a config.log somewhere which can't find the iconv
> library?
>   

Here it is: http://www.smartlink.ee/~kalev/mingw32-opensc-iconv-config.log

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Kalev Lember



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