Re: TODO

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 04:34:49PM CET:
> 
> >+2004-03-28  Scott James Remnant  <address@hidden>
> >+
> >+    * ltmain.in: The dynamic link loader on some platforms is able to
> >+    correctly traverse dependency trees, therefore when $link_all_deplibs
> >+    is set to 'no' don't add the contents of dependency_libs to the
> >+    link line to link a program.
> >+    * m4/libtool.m4 (AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_LD_SHLIBS) [linux*]: Linux is one
> >+    of those platforms, set link_all_deplibs to 'no' for both C++ and
> >+    other compilers.
> >+    * NEWS: Updated.
> 
> Bob's second point needs addressing first, IMHO.  I think the
> -rpath stuff will come out in the wash provided we are careful.
> 
> Either way, this is a deep change for HEAD only.

Actually, because of the problem Daniel described in
address@hidden, I would consider this
a bug in current libtool.

If you use .la files, the problem exists, if you directly link to the
.so, it doesn't.  The failure might be silent.  Sounds like a bug to me.

BTW, precisely because Debian has used this for a long time, I think
this change will have less problems than some of the other recent
changes (versioned libtool installs come to mind).

Regards,
Ralf