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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 25 August 2009 12:42:19 Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> Relying on the OS's implicit dependency features seems to be an
> >> approach which is fraught with peril.
> >
> > why ?
>
> When viewing the issue through Linux package-maintainer spectacles
> everything looks pretty straightforward since the environment and
> packages are well managed and tested prior to deployment.  Any
> failures can be usefully corrected.  Libraries are carefully built
> with well-managed partial dependency lists.  If you consider the case
> where someone installs and builds everything from a random collection
> of source packages on a random Linux release, then the situation is
> different.
>
> This issue has some up oodles of times.  Obviously there is a good
> reason for the complaints (Linux equivalent of "DLL hell") but the
> solution in libtool needs to be assured to work everywhere, and not
> just on well-managed well-manicured recent Linux.

the "dll hell" issue you refer to really doesnt have much (anything?) to do 
with libtool.  that's a binary package issue.

making the code use reduced library sets for only linux targets is fine by me.  
libtool already has plenty of target-specific code based on the quality of 
library handling.
-mike

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