p11-kit: fix static build

[SCOTT-HAMILTON]

Motivation for this change

Part of a bigger project to build Qt 5 statically #136107.

Things done

Fixed build of pkgsStatic.p11-kit,
created mesonShlibsToStaticHook: a preconfigure setup hook that replaces all shared_library calls to static_library calls in meson.build files.

• Built on platform(s)
  • x86_64-linux
  • aarch64-linux
  • x86_64-darwin
  • aarch64-darwin
• For non-Linux: Is sandbox = true set in nix.conf? (See Nix manual)
• Tested, as applicable:
  • NixOS test(s) (look inside nixos/tests)
  • and/or package tests
  • or, for functions and "core" functionality, tests in lib/tests or pkgs/test
  • made sure NixOS tests are linked to the relevant packages
• Tested compilation of all packages that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nixpkgs-review --run "nixpkgs-review rev HEAD". Note: all changes have to be committed, also see nixpkgs-review usage
• Tested basic functionality of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
• 21.11 Release Notes (or backporting 21.05 Release notes)
  • (Package updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is major or breaking
  • (Module updates) Added a release notes entry if the change is significant
  • (Module addition) Added a release notes entry if adding a new NixOS module
  • (Release notes changes) Ran nixos/doc/manual/md-to-db.sh to update generated release notes
• Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

[alyssais]

Hi, thanks for breaking these out into smaller PRs.

My understanding is that it doesn't make sense to build p11-kit statically. Am I misunderstanding?

I've been working on a bunch of static stuff recently, with some overlap with your work. From what I've found, Meson projects that are explicitly calling shared_library are doing that for a reason (libglvnd is another example that doesn't make sense to build statically).

So unless there's something I'm missing, I think a better path forward would be to disable p11-kit support in packages that optionally use it. I have a patch to do this for gnutls I could submit.

[SCOTT-HAMILTON]

OK, I didn't really ask myself this question so thanks for pointing it out.

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This pull request has been mentioned on NixOS Discourse. There might be relevant details there:

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/libudev-as-static-library/16272/2