dependency_libs question

2002-11-04 Thread Jon Nall
hello. i'm curious what the proper solution is to the following problem: - i have a shared library, libfoo-internal.so - i have another shared library, libfoo.so that depends on libfoo-internal.so - the interface between these two libraries may change in any given version of foo. i'm compiling

internal dependencies

2002-11-07 Thread Jon Nall
hello. no one responded to my question regarding internal dependencies. i'd really appreciate some guidance on this issue. on GNU/Linux, if i have a package comprised of libfoo.so and libfoo-internal.so. i want applications to link only against libfoo.so, since the libfoo-internal.so interface m

an easy question

2002-12-06 Thread Jon Nall
why do .la files have to store hard-coded paths of the .so files they reference? why aren't the names enough as ld.so should be able to query it's cache of library directories at runtime? i realize libtool runs on lots of OSes, and maybe my question is linux-centric. but i really would like to un