Building shared and static libraries with one command?

[raviprak]

Thanks for the help in advance.

I am trying to use abseil static libraries on Fedora Linux. However the static libraries (libabsl_*.a) are not packaged in the abseil-cpp[-devel] RPM package(s); only the shared libraries (libabsl_*.so) are. I suspect it's because the absl_cc_library CMake function here does not support building both simultaneously.

The abseil-cpp-devel sub-package is where I would have expected to find the static libraries. It is built using this spec file. Since 1 spec file can have only 1 set of build commands (reference), the shared libraries get built, but not the static libraries.

I found at least one other request for this.

The alternative is that a new spec file be created for the abseil-cpp-devel package (which would then not be a subpackage of abseil-cpp) and would also duplicate the whole build again.

Is there a way we could build both (static and shared) libraries at once with the same build configuration?

[raviprak]

Following up! Here's a great discussion I had with the abseil-cpp package maintainer. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279555 . TL;DR is that Fedora strongly prefers shared libraries and doesn't package static libraries unless there's a compelling reason to.