While I agree with Bob, we should all build everything with all symbols resolved, I also do not believe ltdl should force this on everything in a project. So I'm inclined to give thumbs up to a patch that fixes that.
On Apr 8, 2014 9:53 AM, "Akim Demaille" <
address@hidden> wrote:
Hi Bob!
Le 8 avr. 2014 à 16:28, Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> a écrit :
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2014, Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> This option is necessary in order to build DLLs under Windows (and likely shared libraries under AIX).
I do understand it is needed on some platforms, but I
don't aim at these.
> It expects a commitment to supply all dependency libraries at library/module link time.
Which almost means additional dependencies and time spent
in relinking. Which I try to avoid as much as possible.
> You could edit the copy of libltd/Makefile.inc in your project if it causes an issue for you but there may be consequences for platforms which need it.
Yes, I know. But still, to me it looks like something which
is probably not meant to be. After all, it decides for the
whole package what options should be passed for all libraries.
It should rather be scoped to libltdl only, and the documentation
should emphasize the relevance of -no-undefined (which it already
does).
> GraphicsMagick uses a non-recursive build and used to build libltdl as part of the build (for at least 8 years). Even though ltdl added -no-undefined it was not a problem since GraphicsMagick was intentionally using this option.
>
> Since then, I realized that building libltdl as part of the project was prohibitive, costly, and dangerous. It was better to rely on libltdl to be a formally installed dependency on the system. Now GraphicsMagick treats libltdl just like any other external library and life is much improved. I would encourage any other package to not bundle libltdl and to simply document that it must already be installed on the system.
What do you mean by dangerous? In case of mixture of versions I guess?
This is probably a problem for libraries that likely to be linked in
a program that links with even more libraries.
And for "prohibitive and costly", I'd be happy too to have some details :)
It's not too big, and very fast to build (compared to the remainder
of my severely-templated C++ libraries, it is perfectly negligible).
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