On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 11:15 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:02:55PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Actually, I'd say the opposite is true ... the LONGER link line, > > produced by the current Libtool, is what allows people to get away with > > this because Libtool puts more stuff into the link line. > > > > A shorter, more concise, link line actually forces people to make sure > > they *do* link anything they require themselves, rather than relying on > > Libtool to do the right thing for them. > > but where does the problem show up? on !Linux, because Linux will > "do the right thing". > No, on Linux ... because Linux does the right thing and causes the applications to break; whereas Libtool does the wrong thing and links the application directly with half the libraries on the system.
Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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