On Friday 17 January 2003 11:07, David Abrahams wrote: > 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.
OK but I never had any trouble with it so far (although NEEDLIBS is only used once in my linkline to prevent people from creating circular dependencies) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
