Toon Knapen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Friday 17 January 2003 14:59, David Abrahams wrote:
>> No, please restore that feature. The build system offers no
>> guarantees about the order in which specified libraries will be added
>> to NEEDLIBS, and we'd rather work in all circumstances than save
>> whatever miniscule amount of link time it takes to deal with the
>> repetition.
>
> Done.
> Nevertheless I use bjam also for my own project (as you might know) and there
> I've always removed the duplication because I don't want to allow developers
> to create circulare dependencies. And the system has worked fine (thanks
> again jamboosters)
It's not just about circular dependencies. If library A depends on
library B, when you link them into an executable there's no guarantee
that they'll appear in the right order.
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