On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 20:44 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 05:17:49PM CEST: > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Anssi Hannula wrote: > > > > > >I think the proper way to solve this is to not link to dependency_libs > > >when linking dynamically on systems where it is not needed to link to > > >those. I haven't seen any correctly working patches that implement this. > > > > Relying on the OS's implicit dependency features seems to be an > > approach which is fraught with peril. > > With GNU/Linux, and libraries all being in directories searched by > default by both the link editor and the runtime linker, the problems > are fairly limited. IIRC Debian requires that you link directly against > all libraries that you require directly. > > The problems start as soon as you link (directly or indirectly) against > libraries in directories not searched by default. IOW: typically > anything not provided by a properly packaged Debian package, installed > by the user or the system maintainer.
Surely at least on Linux the -rpath linker option would be a much better way to solve this? Linux does seem to have good dynamic linker support and its a shame libtool effectively drags it down to a lower common denominator of other platforms with worse support. Cheers, Richard -- Richard Purdie Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
