Re: disable indirect dependency linking

[Robert Boehne]

Not to my knowledge.  Libtool does this to support the use of "static" libraries, which generally require all of the indirect and direct dependencies, in the correct order (including duplicates), to be provided on the command line at link time.

For a shared library link, this can, on some platforms, add data to the output binary that may not necessary on every platform but remember, the purpose of Libtool is not to provide optimal linking on your platform, but to provide portability across platforms.

HTH,

Robert Boehne

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Sashan Govender <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi

How do I tell libtool not to recursively add dependant libraries to
the list of libraries to link with. For example, say I have a program
A, that depends on libfoo and libfoo depends on libbar. In my
Makefile.am  for A I have a line like this:

A_LDDADD= libfoo.la

Behind the scenes libtool will figure out that libfoo depends on
libbar and so after linking the resultant binary contains information
showing that A depends on  libfoo and libbar. (i.e. output from
objdump -p A | grep NEEDED shows both libraries). Since libbar is an
indirect dependency of A, libtool has added it. Can this be disabled
such that only the direct dependencies are included?

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