On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:00 AM, Roumen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> >> Roumen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >>> Russ Allbery wrote: >> >>>> Debian's experience to date is that --as-needed is buggy and breaks a >>>> lot of software, and overall is not a particularly stable solution. >>>> Removing *.la files so that the unneeded shared libraries aren't linked >>>> in the first place works considerably better at the moment. >> >>> Could you point by example how libtool add "pile of unnecessary >>> dependencies" ? Whit this example could you confirm that libtool add >>> more(extra) libraries then specified by project authors ? >> >> When you create a libtool library, libtool records every library against >> which that library was linked into the *.la file. If you then link >> another shared library against that shared library using libtool, libtool >> reads that list of libraries from the *.la file and links the new library >> against them as well. > > But problem is not in the libtool.
Yes it is. If you're linking to libfoo, libtool reads libfoo.la and adds direct links to everything in dependency_libs. Let's say libfoo depends on libbar and libbaz. You're application ends up directly linking to libfoo, libbar and libbaz instead of just libfoo. -- Dan _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
