Re: interdependent shared library problem

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Patrick,

* Patrick Welche wrote on Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:17:42PM CEST:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib doesn't need to be in the default set of paths searched
> by the loader. As I mentioned, with a different compile line to the one
> generated by libtool, I have a working hello. The problem is that the
> binary created by libtool contains the dependencies of the shared the
> library rather than just depending on the shared library.

No.  The bug is that the -R information isn't also transferred to the
program.  The (known) Libtool limitation is that it does not implement
a consistent set of semantics for indirect library dependencies.
(Note there are systems which don't have such.)

I'm not sure why -R isn't transferred, but somebody may have had some
good reason for it.  Who knows.

Cheers,
Ralf