Hi!

Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com> skribis:

> Actually, thinking about this a little more, I'm not sure I understand
> upstream decision to propagate -lz. The commit fixes [0] which indicates
> it's so that taglib can be linked statically, but then that means if
> we're dynamically linking, the application will also dynamically link
> with zlib when it doesn't need to (at least not directly). And in guix
> we only build shared libs for taglib so we're never statically linking
> it AFAIK.
>
> So, here I'm a bit torn here, should we just follow what upstream is
> indicating? Even it doesn't look right to me, but I might be wrong! Or,
> should we revert the change that propagates -lz?

I had the following patch that I intended to push, to avoid propagation.

WDYT?

Ludo’.