Re: Splitting dependency_libs in *.la?

[Rex Dieter]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:

> * Rex Dieter wrote on Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 01:44:42PM CEST:
>> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>> > * Rex Dieter wrote on Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:04:35PM CEST:
>> >> Albert Chin wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > And how do you handle the inherited_linker_flags variable in .la
>> >> > files?
>> >> 
>> >> Dunno, but hopefully implementation details can be overcome (by guru's
>> >> with ample libtool-fu).
>> > 
>> > There is a difference between an implementation detail and a sound set
>> > of semantics.
>> 
>> What else needs to be done except for implementation?
> 
> For example: answer the question that Albert asked.  It is not (purely)
> a question of implementation.  But it is by far one of the easiest
> questions to answer.

Dunno, my libtool-fu is lacking, which was why I hoped someone more
qualified than I could tackle this.

>> Is there not agreement that this is a good approach to address the
>> issues raised?  If not, I hadn't read any responses in this thread
>> saying so.

> If you only want to solve the problem for GNU/Linux systems (more
> precisely: for systems with GNU binutils ld and a glibc ld.so), then
> the issue becomes much simpler.  

This is *exactly* what I'm suggesting: drop/omit the hackage on platforms
that don't need it (and GNU binutils/glibc is one of them).

-- Rex