On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
Relying on the OS's implicit dependency features seems to be an
approach which is fraught with peril.
why ?
When viewing the issue through Linux package-maintainer spectacles
everything looks pretty straightforward since the environment and
packages are well managed and tested prior to deployment. Any
failures can be usefully corrected. Libraries are carefully built
with well-managed partial dependency lists. If you consider the case
where someone installs and builds everything from a random collection
of source packages on a random Linux release, then the situation is
different.
This issue has some up oodles of times. Obviously there is a good
reason for the complaints (Linux equivalent of "DLL hell") but the
solution in libtool needs to be assured to work everywhere, and not
just on well-managed well-manicured recent Linux.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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