Re: Xorg related problem with la files

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Rafał,

* Rafał Mużyło wrote on Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:32:11PM CET:
> I'm using Gentoo. In the LDFLAGS, that my system is built with,
> I have -Wl,--as-needed.
> A few days ago, there was a release of libxcb and libX11,
> that has done away with libxcb-xlib.
> The problem is that this lib has injected its la file
> to a lot of libX11 dependent la files. My question is:
> was there any way to prevent this problem from happening
> in the first place ? Most of the libs affected didn't link
> with that lib anyway.
> Here you'll find a discussion of a similar (but much earlier)
> problem: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158476 .

Yes, this is an unfortunate followup problem of the issue that
libtool adds indirect deplibs to the .la files indiscriminately.

Cheers,
Ralf