On Wed, 16 Nov 2022, Oleg Smolsky wrote:
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> Leaving it here for posterity. Perhaps someone will do this with a bit more
> finesse and turn it into a proper feature.
Are you using libtool as originally distributed by the FSF or are you
using a libtool provided by a Linux system package?
The libtool provided as part of a Linux distribution often hacks
libtool so that it does not include full dependency information in the
library.la files. They do this in order to avoid "excessive linkage"
because they do not want the program/library to retain full linkage
details in case the OS changes the libraries.
Oh, that's a very interesting hint! thanks, Bob! I am using libtoon from the distro.
What does it take to take libtool from upstream? Certainly I can fetch its source... but how do I marry that with the `autoreconf` invocation that drives build system generation?
Oleg.