Re: duplicates

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Monday 02 April 2001 12:37 pm, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I found this in libtol/Changelog
>
> 2001-03-31  Gary V. Vaughan  <address@hidden>
>
>         * ltmain.in: Remove the code for stripping duplicate deplibs
>         from libtool link lines -- duplicates are somtimes necessary
>         to satisfy inter-library dependencies, and never cause link to
>         fail even if they are spurious.
>
> And would like to note that this has been added back then because the
> Solaris shell dies when the link line becomes longer then ~1000 bytes,
> which happens quite fast if you're having 12 libs requiring each other
> in a chain (e.g. KDE libraries). Back then it was also about duplicating
> -L entries, maybe it works now nonetheless.
>
> Greetings, Stephan

Thanks.

I've just reverted 1.4, and am in the process of reverting MLB (roll on MLB 
merge so I don't have to keep doing everything twice!).

Cheers,
        Gary.
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