Re: TODO

[Joe Orton]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:42:51PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 13:16 +0000, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> > 
> > > The patch that is in Debian's libtool?
> > 
> > It is?  I'll defer to Scott...
> > 
> Yes.  When you're making a distribution, Libtool's behaviour of directly
> linking indirect-dependencies is insane.  For a SONAME change to a
> library deep in the stack, that only affects the library immediately
> above it, you suddenly need to rebuild your entire desktop environment.

How does libtool know that the SONAME change only affects the library
above it?  What if there is a structure exposed through multiple levels
of libraries or something like that?  I can think of several cases where
doing this by default in libtool would be unsafe.

joe