[PROJ] Proj9 small library size

[Charles Karney]

It's not particularly difficult to get cmake to build both static and
shared libraries.  Just set up targets for both and have "make all"
build them.

On 8/16/22 08:53, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 8/16/22 14:03, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> writes:
>>
>>> @Mike That's a different thing. libproj-dev from PROJ 7 includes the
>>> static .a library, whereas the one from PROJ 9 doesn't (since PROJ
>>> CMake builds only build shared or static libraries, but not both at
>>> the same time)
>>
>> That seems like a bug, if you can't easily pass a switch to make both.
> 
> It's long standing CMake behavior.
> 
> libtools builds both by default, so switching to CMake implies dropping 
> dropping the static library, or building the project twice setting 
> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS accordingly.
> 
> It's of the reasons switching from Autotools to CMake is considered a 
> regression of packaging point of view.
> 
> The static library is a convenience for users of the Debian package, 
> it's not used by other packages, so dropping it is not a big deal, it 
> only affects a small subset of users.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Bas
>