Bug 691887

We do not intend to support building MuPDF as a shared library. Shared libraries are a lot more trouble than they are worth. If you are willing to take on the task of maintaining a shared library build for Fedora, I will not object, but please bear in mind that any such patches will not make it into the upstream sources.

ok. I'll not build mupdf for fedora.Because I do not intend to support building MuPDF as a static library. Using static libs in Fedora is not recommended.

What's your point against shared libs? The resulting bins are dynamically linked against freetype/X11/ anyway. (Gentoo does not split libmupdf and mupdf, so the mu* bins will always match corresponding libfitz.

My approach to build shared libs:
-redefine LIB_FITZ and the rule to create it and pass the -fpic via XCFLAGS
    my_soname=libfitz.so.1.2
    sed -e "\$a\$(FITZ_LIB):" \
        -e "\$a\\\t\$(QUIET_LINK) \$(CC) \$(LDFLAGS) --shared -Wl,-soname -Wl,${my_soname} -o \$@ \$^" \
        -e "/^FITZ_LIB :=/s:=.*:= build/debug/${my_soname}:" \                     
        -i Makefile || die
    make XCFLAGS=-fpic

The static libs are created in a different copy of the source tree.
And you can archive a real static binary by having static-libs of the deps and pass XLIBS="-static"

    cp -a "${S}" "${S}"-static || die
    #add missing Libs.private for xcb and freetype
    sed -e 's:\(pkg-config --libs\):\1 --static:' \                            
        -e '/^SYS_X11_LIBS :=/s:\(.*\):\1 -lpthread:' \
        -e '/^SYS_FREETYPE_LIBS :=/s:\(.*\):\1 -lbz2:' \
        -i "${S}"-static/Makerules || die
    make -C "${S}"-static XLIBS="-static"

The combined Gentoo ebuild (version 9999) can be found at 
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-text/mupdf/

(In reply to comment #3)
>         -e "\$a\\\t\$(QUIET_LINK) \$(CC) \$(LDFLAGS) --shared -Wl,-soname
> -Wl,${my_soname} -o \$@ \$^" \

one extra \$(LIBS) at the end, and to fail on problems: -Wl,--no-undefined.