Re: Deplibs for conviences archives and binaries.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Kurt, Gary,

* Kurt Roeckx wrote on Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:52:53PM CET:
> 
> It seems 1.5 and head are a little bit different when it comes to
> linking a binary.  It seems that for linking a binary it does the
> same as in case of a conviences library, and adds all
> depedency_libs to deplibs.  It should do that for conviences
> libraries, but not for binaries.
> 
> I've attached a patch to make head do the same as 1.5, which is
> the behaviour I want.  It just moves the code to be inside the
> if.
> 
> I have no idea why they're different, couldn't find when it was
> changed (in which branch), but didn't look too hard either.

This is exactly the reversal of libtool--gary--1.0--patch-49 which is
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2004-09/msg00248.html

It would help greatly to have both
- a small self-contained example that works with libtool-1.5.x but
  breaks with CVS HEAD,
- any more details on how CVS m4 breaks without
  libtool--gary--1.0--patch-49 and how to reproduce that easily.

In above mail, Gary said:
| Finally... it has taken me a week to track down the two bugs [...]

and I have little desire to invest another week.  I can't bootstrap
CVS m4 at the moment because it needs (among others) CVS gettext which
fails to build for me.. and I don't have lots of incentive to chase all
these bugs before getting to the libtool one.
(IOW, a pointer to a CVS m4 tarball would be great, too).

Cheers,
Ralf