On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 03:05:50PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > what i don't understand follows:
> > "*** Warning: inter-library dependencies are not known to be supported.
> > *** All declared inter-library dependencies are being dropped.
> > *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be
> > *** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library
> > *** or is declared to -dlopen it."
> >
> > i suppose the command following this statement fails because of the
> > problem claimed by it, but i still don't figure out what does it means.
>
> Normally, when you "link in" a shared library into a program, the
> program will not contain code from that library, just stubs that are
> resolved at runtime *and* will depend on it. This dependencies are
> what shows up on "ldd BINARY".
>
> If you link a shared library with a shared library, the same should
> happen, but some library formats do not support this feature. The
> message means that libtool suspects this system to be one of these.
> (see also "(libtool)Inter-library Dependencies" in the info pages).
>
> libtool is actually wrong, because all common Linux ports use ELF,
> which supports inter-library dependencies (accordingly, you can see
> those with "ldd LIBRARY").
>
hmm... yes
> I don't think that the following error (libtool issues: "gcc [...] -o
> .libs/") has the same cause, apart from the fact that it's libtool's
> fault again: -o must name a target file, not a directory.
>
ok, i knew it was libtool to be wrong :))
> aspell contains libtool 1.3c, which is old. Your best bet at the
> moment is running "libtoolize --force" in its top level directory
> while having a modern libtool package installed. This may well fix
> those bugs (or not).
>
yes, i'll try
thanks
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> Robbe
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