Static libs are kinda discouraged in *SUSE. Adding local versioning, cf. spirv-tools for an example, would be the way to go here.

"+BuildRequires: liblzma5" This is wrong, a library without anything else is useless. Did you intend to use xz-devel instead..

Okay I'll have look. I know that static libraries are a pain but when upstream doesn't support them properly, what's the use?

Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) - over 2 years ago

target maintainer

only having to patch/rebuild/ship one piece and knowing that the entire distro is patched. the issues with static libs are well researched.

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Use a dynamic library and just bumb the soname every upstream release. For bonus points, if it's already something like libfolly.so.%version, then it that would suffice otherwise may need to be patched in the CMakeFiles