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

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Mike Frysinger wrote on Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 01:49:18AM CEST:
> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 18:41:52 Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> writes:
> > >                          libfoo-ssl_fast.so
> > >   myprog --> somelib -->     or
> > >                          libfoo-ssl_slow.so
> > >
> > > Note that in this case myprog depends on somelib and so that is an
> > > explicit dependency.  However somelib needs some symbols from a library
> > > that the user selects at link time.

> i dont really see how this case is related to the discussion at hand.  if a 
> library maker wanted to let people pick a provider, then the dependency 
> wouldnt be expressed in the libtool linker script.  whether libtool processes 
> all of the libraries in the linker script is irrelevant to this issue.

That is not right.  Well, the way you state it, it can only work on
GNU/Linux and a couple of other systems, but not portably.  For other
systems libtool needs to know.

Cheers,
Ralf