Re: postdeps empty on OpenBSD

[Jacob Meuser]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:41:38AM +0900, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
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> Jacob Meuser wrote:
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> | Thorsten's statement is somewhat misleading.  you can definitely link
> | libraries and dlopened modules against libraries without having all
> | those libraries linked directly to the executable.
> |
> | but, there was something of a policy decision made to not link libraries
> | against eachother.  actually, this policy is somewhat under debate, and
> | the runtime linker is getting a bit of a reworking ...
> |
> | as far as why -lstdc++ is not always used, I can't find the reason ATM,
> | but I do remember some discussion of that at some point.  maybe it's
> | possible that -lstdc++ is not always necessary for each and every g++
> | link command?
> |
> | knowing that not always using -lstdc++ was a conscious decision, I would
> | really consider libtool adding -lstdc++ to be a bug.
> |
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> Well, we need to find a solution to the original poster's problem (runtime
> loading a c++ library from a C application), and I don't see another way to
> do that.

just add -lstdc++ manually.  trust me, that works fine.  I really don't
see why libtool should be adding this automatically.  is it _always_
needed?  what about -lsupc++?

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