Re: What happened to libtool transitive DSOs?

[John Calcote]

Hi Bob. It's an ubuntu distro release - Linux Mint 18. Why would they do that?

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 9:56 AM Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, John Calcote wrote:
>
> After upgrading to libtool 2.4.2, I find that I now have to specify the
> additional secondary .la files that are listed in the primary .la files'
> dependency_libs property, or I get a link error indicating missing DSOs on
> the command line (and I can see that libtool is not adding the transitive
> dependencies like it used to. Why was this change made?

Are you using libtool 2.4.2 as distributed by the FSF or are you using
a modified libtool distributed by an OS vendor?  Some OS vendors
modify libtool like this on purpose.

Bob
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