[poky] [PATCH] meta: Add support for GTK+-3.0 static libraries

[David Freitag]

> GTK+ for many years has explicitly disabled static libraries, which is why you need to override that here.  That is my first hint that this may not be right.

Interesting. Given this, would a patch of this nature even be merged upstream? Would a disabled-by-default PACKAGECONFIG be welcome?

> *If* you want to support a static build of GTK+ then there are ways you can make it sort of work, but this is not it.  Look up --with-included-immodules, --disable-modules, etc in the GTK+ documentation, and pass those.  You should end up with a static gtk+ which contains all the input method modules builtin, but as far as I know printing will still be broken.

As the target system is an embedded device without the ability to print in the first place, losing support for print backends is a non-issue. Supposing a patch of this nature is welcome upstream, there would be a bitbake warning about this lack of support.