Re: another darwin patch

[Benjamin Reed]

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > Changed the check_method to pass_all (we can link against static 
> > archives).
>
>
> Regardless of whether it is *possible* to build a shared library that 
> depends on (external, non-convenience-lib) static archives, it's 
> probably not a good idea to do so.  You'll eventually run into symbol 
> name conflicts as dependent library heirarchies are released (on 
> asynchronous schedules) over time.
>
> I thought there was a policy decision to disallow this behavior, in 
> general.  [Said policy really bit cygwin hard, since our *runtime libs* 
> like libsubc++ and libgcc are currently available as static only.  As a 
> work around, we added a whole bunch of code to "follow the spirit of the 
> new policy" -- that is, disallow creation of shared libs depending on 
> static libs -- *unless* the problematic static libs were solely those 
> runtime libs added by the compiler [-lgcc, -lsupc++, etc].
>
> Anyway, using pass_all obviates the "don't make shared libs that depend 
> on static archives" policy; plus, it's a bad idea anyway given the 
> eventual problems it'll cause on a platform/distribution level...
>
> Just my 2c.

What does this mean for KDE and Gnome then?  KDE at least links
-lXinerama into libkdecore -- and libXinerama is only available as
static since the X folks are still stabilizing the API.  I can only
assume Gnome links libXinerama too.

In theory they're breaking this policy now, it seems, just no one's
appeared to have noticed until building on Darwin...