Bug 481497

Summary:	libpng-devel is missing libpng.a
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	Edward Rosten <er258>
Component:	Development	Assignee:	Petr Gajdos <pgajdos>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	meissner, pth
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	All
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description Edward Rosten 2009-03-03 15:23:50 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032600 SUSE/2.9.95-25.1 Firefox/3.0b5

The static libraries are missing from the libpng development library.

Reproducible: Always

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Removing --disable-static from the SPEC file and rebuilding fixes the problem.

Comment 1 Marcus Meissner 2009-03-03 15:34:19 UTC

this is intentional, to avoid many copies and necessity to update programs for security fixes, and also for size reasons.

why do you need a static libpng.a?

Comment 2 Cristian Rodriguez 2009-03-03 19:20:17 UTC

explained in #481509

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 481509 ***

Comment 3 Cristian Rodriguez 2009-03-03 19:21:20 UTC

I meant #481502

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 481502 ***