[Development] Can QtMultimediaGstTools be static? (was: can not build 5.9.1 qtmultimedia)

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:01:28 PDT Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > QtMultimediaGstTools (formerly qgsttools_p) is a shared library marked
> > "internal_module". Does it need to be a shared library?
> 
> That cannot be the solution either. Distributions really don't like static-
> only libraries. There are already too many of them in Qt. (Each one is one
> too many.)

Distributions won't care because it won't be installed. That library is only a 
helper for the four plugins.

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