Re: Solution to Preload problem & Feature Request

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 14, 2000, Kevin Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ok, so how difficult would it be to have libtool list out these libraries
> for my "pspell-config" script.

I don't think it would be very hard.  It's just a matter of copying
the parts of libtool that expand dependency_libs to the new mode.

> In the case when it won't work, ie rpath is needed, it could print
> out a warning to stderr by still list them out to stdout anyway in
> the case it might just work.

Sounds reasonable.

> I have a felling that others would appreciate this feature also.

My fear is that others might start to depend on this feature, which
might solve the problem for them, but not for people who happen to
install libraries in places other than /usr or /usr/local, like me.
In fact, I've always advocated against these *-config scripts
precisely because they've already caused me a lot of problems in
installations outside /usr.

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