On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 07:33, Chris Cheney wrote: > Does anyone happen to know why .la files hardcode the paths to .la files > that they depend on? > To guarantee that you don't end up linking with something totally different if the app being compiled happens to have a different search path.
What's more of a problem here is that libtool actually links dependency libraries of dependencies ... it's something I've been working on for a while. > This is about to bite Debian hard with some of the XFree86 libraries > moving to /usr/lib. > How? XFree86 doesn't use generally use libtool -- I only see libXrender.la in my /usr/X11R6/lib Scott (Unsigned as keyring packed or Expo) -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
