Re: TODO

[Scott James Remnant]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 11:15 -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:02:55PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > Actually, I'd say the opposite is true ... the LONGER link line,
> > produced by the current Libtool, is what allows people to get away with
> > this because Libtool puts more stuff into the link line.
> > 
> > A shorter, more concise, link line actually forces people to make sure
> > they *do* link anything they require themselves, rather than relying on
> > Libtool to do the right thing for them.
> 
> but where does the problem show up?  on !Linux, because Linux will
> "do the right thing".
> 
No, on Linux ... because Linux does the right thing and causes the
applications to break; whereas Libtool does the wrong thing and links
the application directly with half the libraries on the system.

Scott
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