Re: removal of .la files from Debian and a possible solution to the libtool shared libs problem

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Anssi Hannula wrote:
> I think the proper way to solve this is to not link to dependency_libs
> when linking dynamically on systems where it is not needed to link to
> those. I haven't seen any correctly working patches that implement this.

Relying on the OS's implicit dependency features seems to be an 
approach which is fraught with peril.

Bob
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