On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
Relying on the OS's implicit dependency features seems to be an approach
which is fraught with peril.
Relying on the dynamic linker to resolve implicit dependencies is the only
way that it's really feasible to maintain a distribution the size of
Debian. Otherwise, your shared library dependencies get so entangled that
it's extremely difficult to correctly handle transitions.
Note that program/library linkage and the dynamic linker are two
entirely different things. Libtool only takes care of the former,
although it may run ldconfig to assist with the latter.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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