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

[Mike Frysinger]

On Tuesday 25 August 2009 18:37:54 Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 20:44 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 05:17:49PM CEST:
> > > 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.
> >
> > With GNU/Linux, and libraries all being in directories searched by
> > default by both the link editor and the runtime linker, the problems
> > are fairly limited.  IIRC Debian requires that you link directly against
> > all libraries that you require directly.
> >
> > The problems start as soon as you link (directly or indirectly) against
> > libraries in directories not searched by default.  IOW: typically
> > anything not provided by a properly packaged Debian package, installed
> > by the user or the system maintainer.
>
> Surely at least on Linux the -rpath linker option would be a much better
> way to solve this?

a combo of -rpath and -rpath-link ...
-mike

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