Re: Linking against indirect dependencies

[Szombathelyi György]

Hello!

Bob Friesenhahn írta:
> It is not an easy task to intuit which systems require the full linkage 
> list and which will work properly with an abbreviated list. Even older 
> Linux versions require the full linkage list (or several copies thereof!).
>
> A further problem is that libtool doesn't reliably know if a static or 
> shared library will be used by the system linker.  If it guesses wrong 
> and a static library is used, then everything breaks since static 
> libraries don't support dependencies.
And what about adding an option to libtool, like 
--disable-indirect-dependencies (should be shorter, I think), with a 
correspondig ./configure option, so a brave  man can exploit the power 
of his choosen platform. Maybe make it default on some platforms. Users 
of this options should be package maintainers, who have greater 
experience in compiling software and can decide if this option is safely 
usable.

Bye,
György