From ab731b836bb7231f4d159941be20218008e78fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Williams <peter@newton.cx>
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2019 23:15:15 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] build.rs: add a mode to go for "semi-static" compilation

By "semi-static" I mean that the final binary is not statically linked, but
that it only dynamically links with core system libraries. Higher-level like
harfbuzz are linked into the executable statically. This is accomplished by an
environment variable TECTONIC_PKGCONFIG_FORCE_SEMI_STATIC=1, since I
discovered that the pkg-config-rs library's logic for encouraging static
linking will turn it off in the common case that our static libraries live in
standard system prefixes.

Unfortunately, graphite2 seems to have issues with its various static builds
(e.g. https://github.com/silnrsi/graphite/pull/54) so we won't always get a
super-minimal list of dependencies, but this seems to get us most of the way
there, and I've coded it so that we should start doing better if/when
graphite2 is fixed.
---
 build.rs | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index 20e4cd3f2..7278cb828 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -63,8 +63,15 @@ enum DepState {
 impl DepState {
     /// Probe for our dependent libraries using pkg-config.
     fn new_pkg_config() -> Self {
+        let statik = if let Ok(_) = env::var("TECTONIC_PKGCONFIG_FORCE_SEMI_STATIC") {
+            true
+        } else {
+            false
+        };
+
         let libs = pkg_config::Config::new()
             .cargo_metadata(false)
+            .statik(statik)
             .probe(PKGCONFIG_LIBS)
             .unwrap();
         DepState::PkgConfig(PkgConfigState { libs })
@@ -110,11 +117,56 @@ impl DepState {
     /// backend or the target.
     fn emit_late_extras(&self, target: &str) {
         match self {
-            &DepState::PkgConfig(_) => {
-                pkg_config::Config::new()
-                    .cargo_metadata(true)
-                    .probe(PKGCONFIG_LIBS)
-                    .unwrap();
+            &DepState::PkgConfig(ref state) => {
+                if let Ok(_) = env::var("TECTONIC_PKGCONFIG_FORCE_SEMI_STATIC") {
+                    // pkg-config will prevent "system libraries" from being
+                    // linked statically even when PKG_CONFIG_ALL_STATIC=1,
+                    // but its definition of a system library isn't always
+                    // perfect. For Debian cross builds, we'd like to make
+                    // binaries that are dynamically linked with things like
+                    // libc and libm but not libharfbuzz, etc. In this mode we
+                    // override pkg-config's logic by emitting the metadata
+                    // ourselves.
+                    for link_path in &state.libs.link_paths {
+                        println!("cargo:rustc-link-search=native={}", link_path.display());
+                    }
+
+                    for fw_path in &state.libs.framework_paths {
+                        println!("cargo:rustc-link-search=framework={}", fw_path.display());
+                    }
+
+                    for libbase in &state.libs.libs {
+                        let do_static = match libbase.as_ref() {
+                            "c" | "m" | "dl" | "pthread" => false,
+                            _ => {
+                                // Frustratingly, graphite2 seems to have
+                                // issues with static builds; e.g. static
+                                // graphite2 is not available on Debian. So
+                                // let's jump through the hoops of testing
+                                // whether the static archive seems findable.
+                                let libname = format!("lib{}.a", libbase);
+                                state
+                                    .libs
+                                    .link_paths
+                                    .iter()
+                                    .any(|d| d.join(&libname).exists())
+                            }
+                        };
+
+                        let mode = if do_static { "static=" } else { "" };
+                        println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib={}{}", mode, libbase);
+                    }
+
+                    for fw in &state.libs.frameworks {
+                        println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=framework={}", fw);
+                    }
+                } else {
+                    // Just let pkg-config do its thing.
+                    pkg_config::Config::new()
+                        .cargo_metadata(true)
+                        .probe(PKGCONFIG_LIBS)
+                        .unwrap();
+                }
             }
 
             &DepState::VcPkg(_) => {
@@ -149,6 +201,7 @@ fn main() {
     // OK, how are we finding our dependencies?
 
     println!("cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=TECTONIC_DEP_BACKEND");
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=TECTONIC_PKGCONFIG_FORCE_SEMI_STATIC");
 
     let dep_state = if let Ok(dep_backend_str) = env::var("TECTONIC_DEP_BACKEND") {
         match dep_backend_str.as_ref() {