'dependency_libs' of .la file ignored?

[Carlo Wood]

This looks like a bug to me:
On mingw,

/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link --tag=CXX g++  -g 
-I/usr/src/install/3.2.3/include
  -I/usr/local/include -I/c/Progra~1/GnuWin32/include  
-L/usr/src/install/3.2.3/lib
  -L/usr/local/lib -L/c/Progra~1/GnuWin32/lib -o libxsltwrapp.la
  -rpath /usr/src/install/3.2.3/lib -L/usr/src/install/3.2.3/lib 
-L/usr/local/lib
  -L/c/Progra~1/GnuWin32/lib -version-info 5:0:5 -export-dynamic -no-undefined
  libxsltwrapp_la-init.lo libxsltwrapp_la-stylesheet.lo 
../libxml/libxmlwrapp.la -lexslt 
rm -fr  .libs/libxsltwrapp.dll.a
g++ -shared -nostdlib 
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2.3/../../../dllcrt2.o
  c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2.3/crtbegin.o  
.libs/libxsltwrapp_la-init.o
  .libs/libxsltwrapp_la-stylesheet.o  -LC:/msys/1.0/local/lib 
-L/usr/src/install/3.2.3/lib
  -L/usr/local/lib -L/c/Progra~1/GnuWin32/lib ../libxml/.libs/libxmlwrapp.dll.a 
-lexslt
  -Lc:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2.3 -Lc:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib
  -L/mingw/lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2.3 
-Lc:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2.3/../../../../mingw32/lib
  -L/mingw/lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2.3/../../../../mingw32/lib
  -Lc:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2.3/../../..
  -L/mingw/lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2.3/../../.. -lstdc++ -lmingw32 -lgcc 
-lmoldname
  -lmingwex -lmsvcrt -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lmingw32 -lgcc
  -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt 
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc-lib/mingw32/3.2.3/crtend.o
  -o .libs/libxsltwrapp-0.dll -Wl,--image-base=0x10000000 
-Wl,--out-implib,.libs/libxsltwrapp.dll.a

which results on undefined references because -lxslt is missing.
I think that -lxslt should be there because it is in ../libxml/libxmlwrapp.la:

dependency_libs=' -L/usr/src/install/3.2.3/lib -L/usr/local/lib 
-L/c/Progra~1/GnuWin32/lib -LC:/msys/1.0/local/lib -lxslt -lxml2 -lz -lm'

Why does libtool not add the dependency_libs of a linked .la to
the parameters of the g++ command?

-- 
Carlo Wood <address@hidden>