Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:16:46PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> Summarizing the upstream thread, it seems the solution they prefer is >> to just ignore dependency_libs when linking dynamically. > > That should be reasonable. > >> Is there any situation where that wouldn't work in Debian? pkg-config has >> both Libs/Requires and Libs.private/Requires.private so there must be >> some kind of use-case where stuff linking to shared-lib libfoo also has >> to link with libbar? > > Mostly to accomodate gtk+ upstream, who insist that it's reasonable for > software to #include <gtk.h> and then use glib types in their code. I > don't think this has an analogue in the libtool world.
But: % objdump -p /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5 | grep glib NEEDED libglib-2.0.so.0 If gkt+ encourages using glib types, there is no problem while gtk itself uses glib types, as far as I can see. Or is there something I'm missing? Saludos, Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org