Re: TODO

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Howard!

Howard Chu wrote:
> That's great for shared libraries, but one of the things I actually like 
> about libtool is the automatic dependency inclusion when linking static 
> libraries. I.e., plain 'ol .a archives are much less friendlier without 
> libtool because they don't carry any dependency info...

Agreed.  We would only drop the deplibs when we know the linker will
handle it.  The only difference to the user is that they will see much
shorter linker calls if they are building on a host that can handle it.
Everything is remains as is!

Cheers,
        Gary.
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