Hi Steve, * Steve Langasek wrote on Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:01:35PM CEST: > > Is there no one out there who can answer this question from my mail of last > week,
I've been away, sorry for the late response. > or was the message simply drowned out in the flood of spam on the > list? :) We are _trying_ to work on this. > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 03:07:35AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > Last March, Scott James Remnant put together a patch which fixed libtool to > > not gratuitously add indirect library dependencies to the linker line when > > doing shared linking on Linux. I was distraught to learn from him just > > yesterday that this patch was never actually accepted upstream. We've been > > using it to good effect for the past year in Debian, and I was fully under > > the impression that I could look forward to this change streamlining our > > Debian development processes as more and more software began to use it > > upstream, reducing the need to recompile software linked to libraries it > > shouldn't have been linked to. Evidently, this is not the case. > > > I can find only one very short thread > > <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2004-03/msg00111.html> > > about this patch in the libtool-patches archive, which doesn't appear to > > include much discussion. Can someone explain to me what the rationale was > > for rejecting this patch, so that I can address those reasons? Well, I can at least point you to much much more discussion about the general issue. Alas, other (libtool and non-libtool related) work has kept at least me from progressing in this regard. Also, the newer GNU ld switches might want us rethinking this issue, maybe. deplibs RFC discussion: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-12/msg00029.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2004-11/msg00455.html There were also a couple of bug reports related to Debian having link_all_deplibs=no, but the user expecting otherwise. For example, if you want to use an uninstalled debugging version of a library, but the missing explicit link only gets you the installed one on runtime (I can search for the report if you're interested). Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
