Static libtiff builds miss dependency link metadata
Downstream projects fail to link static libtiff because its CMake and pkg-config files omit or misstate dependencies.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 30 May 2021 · last reported 12 July 2026
What's going wrong
Developers who link libtiff statically report that the generated pkg-config and CMake package files either leave out codec libraries or list them in an order that breaks linking.
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