On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:30:56AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > 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.
I seem to recall you working on that earlier this year, how is it coming along? > > 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 Which is the one moving to /usr/lib. (I am not sure if any others are planning to be moved.) Chris
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