On 10/5/10 4:33 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 13:49:43 +0200
Luca Barbato<lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
Bluntly put, you seem to not know how libtool exactly works and
further down in the thread how linking exactly works. Please try to
learn the fine Gentoo docs on the subject and feel free to ask more
details on irc.
Ah, so you do know exactly how libtool works?
I had to face it in code to workaround some cases already, it hadn't
been a nice experience.
Great! It should be easy for you to fix it to only specify direct link
dependencies then, thus solving the underlying problem in one place rather
than working around it by fixing thousands of individual packages.
Sadly that would be already partially fixed by as-needed, the problem is
that libtool mangles also library search paths when using .la files and
that breaks in a number of situations we have in some sort of normal
uses of Gentoo.
I look forward to testing your patch!
The patch to avoid the issues by omitting the usage of .la in case
--shared is provided is easy enough and solves quite well the problems
mentioned.
lu
