Package: libtool Version: 1.5.22-4 Severity: normal Dear Kurt, thanks for helping me along with this issue on IRC, as dicussed there I am submitting this bug-report for documentation purposes.
I have just realized that the Debian specific libtool enhancement for reducing unneeded linkage (by not recursivly linking dependency_libs when dynamic linking is used) does not work when libtool convenience libraries (noinst_LTLIBRARIES) are used. This hit me in 405239. Gnutls is using a convenience library liblgnu.la which links against libgcrypt. libtool adds libgcrypt.la _and_ *its* dependency_libs to liblgnu.la's dependency_libs. Later when gnutls is generated, libgnutls is linked directly against liblgnu.la's dependency_libs which contains libgcrypt's indirect dependencies. So afaict the cause of the issue is that libtool acts differently depending whether it generates a convenience library or a real one. For a conv-lib it will _recursively_ add dependencies to dependency_libs. As discussed in 347650 there is a workaround: On mer, jan 11, 2006, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > I suggest if you create a convience library, you don't link any > libraries to it at that time. Instead, when you are linking in > the convience libraries to something, at that point you should > add those libraries. This will avoid libtool from adding all the > dependency libraries on the command line. Limitations of this approach and more discussion on the topic can also be found in 347650. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
