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

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Relying on the OS's implicit dependency features seems to be an approach
> > which is fraught with peril.
>
> Relying on the dynamic linker to resolve implicit dependencies is the only
> way that it's really feasible to maintain a distribution the size of
> Debian.  Otherwise, your shared library dependencies get so entangled that
> it's extremely difficult to correctly handle transitions.

Note that program/library linkage and the dynamic linker are two 
entirely different things.  Libtool only takes care of the former, 
although it may run ldconfig to assist with the latter.

Bob
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