Le vendredi 04 novembre 2011 à 17:30 -0400, Daniel Ruoso a écrit : > The basic idea is creating "dummy libraries" that would serve for the > linking but that had no code on it. This would allow the linking to > happen -- of course this only helps in the case where the build > process doesn't run anything from the build-dependency. > > Later the other package in the cycle would be built, and the actual > library would be made available instead of the "dummy", and the linker > would find the actual library.
I don’t think it works for all such cases, because some of the circular build-dependencies are needed by binaries run at build time. If they don’t find the needed symbols, you’re doomed. OTOH I can think of a pair of cases where your idea would work. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `-
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