On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 07:31:47AM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Bob Friesenhahn > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I feel like today I just watched the movie "Groundhog Day" another 20 times. > > This topic re-emerges just as often as the one about whether list replies > > should default to the original sender, or to the list. > > > > It seems that there is an issue for Linux distribution maintainers. What > > needs to be done about it so that this topic does not come up so often? > > I haven't followed the topic for that long, but it think this is that > patch Debian uses which many other distros have picked up: > > http://patches.ubuntu.com/libt/libtool/extracted/link_all_deplibs.patch > http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/libtool/current/SOURCES/libtool-1.5.24-link_all_deplibs.patch?view=markup > > So, what would it take to get something like that upstream?
There are a few problems with this patch. See: http://bugs.debian.org/291641 http://bugs.debian.org/320698 http://bugs.debian.org/297726 It's also not complete: http://bugs.debian.org/419228 > Obviously, > it would first have to be ported to 2.2. Then, it seems to me that it > should probably use a feature test rather than a platform glob. I > think Ralf called this transitive dependency closures. The patch has been ported to 2.2 and the first link you showed is the one for 2.2. Kurt _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool