On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
I've been away for a few days..
* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 09:44:19PM CET:Scott James Remnant wrote:
They're both trying to deal with platforms like Solaris that don't have a needed-following link loader.
That's a good idea, if we know the linker can find deplibs without help, we should take advantage of that to shorten the link line! Please add it to TODO.
Seconded (or thirded, or whoever also wants this). On systems where deplibs are handled by the linker, libtool should give the advantage back to the user. IMVHO this is actually increasing the value of libtool, because it allows the user to make use of the features of the underlying system. Just let the docs explicitly tell that the non-implicit dependencies on other systems will lead to more work for the end-user there.
I must respectfully disagree with this for the second time. Just because a platform supports the feature does not mean that a particular shared library has recorded the necessary dependencies so they may be automatically included. If the dependencies were lacking when the shared library was built, then they will also be lacking for any program or library which links with it.
Libtiff comes to mind as a shared library which in times past has lacked dependency information.
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