On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:42:51PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:16 +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote: > > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > >>>>Scott James Remnant wrote: > > >>>>> > > >>>>>They're both trying to deal with platforms like Solaris that don't have > > >>>>>a needed-following link loader. > > > > > The patch that is in Debian's libtool? > > > > It is? I'll defer to Scott... > > > Yes. When you're making a distribution, Libtool's behaviour of directly > linking indirect-dependencies is insane. For a SONAME change to a > library deep in the stack, that only affects the library immediately > above it, you suddenly need to rebuild your entire desktop environment.
How does libtool know that the SONAME change only affects the library above it? What if there is a structure exposed through multiple levels of libraries or something like that? I can think of several cases where doing this by default in libtool would be unsafe. joe _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
