Re: FYI: duplicate removal patch [Was Re: ok, new libtool for cygwinupdates]

[Nick Hudson]

Michael Matz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have applied the following to HEAD (and similar to MLB).
> > >
> > > Why also MLB?  Was it really broken there too?  I ask, because I
> > > _definitely_ got multiple libraries in link commands.
> >
> > Try out the new depdemo-dups.test on an old libtool script, and you'll see
> > what I mean.  Perhaps I have found and fixed a similar but different bug?
> 
> I see.  Argh, This then again means, that libtool will probably generate
> excessively large link commands for KDE.  We sometimes list also dependent
> libs in the makefiles (history and lazyness), and this then cumulates over
> many libraries.  Hmm, OK I need to check, if this really is so, but I
> suspect it.

I can confirm this. Some .la files created by NetBSD KDE 2 pkgs have
dependency_libs entries that are bigger than 2048 characters long. ATM,
the buffer in ltdl.c is currently set to 1024.

-lm and -lXmu appear far more than they need to...

Nick
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