pkg-config: Sort the different sections
Because of the fact that pkg-config is pants-on-head retarded and that the Linux linker *requires* a static library to come before all its dynamic dependencies in the link path, calling `pkg-config --libs --static` was generating the wrong flags for linking. Before this patch: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -L/usr/local/lib -lcurl -lssh2 -lrt -lgit2 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz After this patch: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -L/usr/local/lib -lgit2 -lcurl -lssh2 -lrt -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lz By setting the "Libs" line before all other rules, we make sure that `-lgit2` is the first library in the link path and that it gets its symbols resolved with the libraries coming after it. This fix (ab)uses an implementation detail in `pkg-config` (namely, that flags are output as they are found on the file), but this detail seems to be stable between releases and always gives a stable output.
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