On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:41:54PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020101 15:08]: > > I'm also a little confused by why so many KDE applications link to > > libpng directly. Picking kdeutils at random, the only instances of > > 'png_' or 'png.h' anywhere in the source tree are in > > admin/acinclude.m4.in, yet -lpng is on the link line and so all the > > binary packages built from kdeutils depend on libpng directly. Why? > > I can only guess, but I heard that are systems where an shared library > can not depent on other shared libraries so the application has to > link against all. Perhaps they want KDE to run on such systems, too?
That would be a fair point, but I understand all Debian systems support inter-library dependencies. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
