Re: TODO

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > > Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > > > They're both trying to deal with platforms like Solaris that don't have
> > > > > a needed-following link loader.

> So will libtool do The Right Thing in all circumstances, given
> the tiny patch to enable link_all_deps=yes on linux and whatever
> other system has this linker feature?

I believe so, especially if we are conservative about enabling it.

> The patch that is in Debian's libtool?

It is?  I'll defer to Scott...

>  If yes, the why in the world are we not using it?

Exactly! :-)

Actually, we need to be careful not to break support for old OS
releases.  Bob pointed out that Redhat 5 shipped a linker (presumably
an old GNU ld) that couldn't follow deplibs without help, so we
might want to write a configure time test too.  But we can't rely
on that too much because it will break cross compiles.

On balance, I think we can start setting link_all_deplibs=no in
HEAD for platforms that we can prove will support it.  Ideally,
the GNU ld case should be keyed off `ld --version` so that we
don't break old dists, but other hosts can probably be taken from
$host_os version quite safely.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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