I wrote (in a message from Friday 5)
> inter-dependencies are both good and bad.
> It's a good thing to list them at build time, It helps finding some
> kind of conflicts.
> OTOH, one should not rely on them to prune the list of libraries used
> to link an executable. First, this will break on static only build
> (yes there are still systems without shared libs these days), and then
> it can cause weird failures at run-time if the linker does not walk
> the full dependencies.
>
> So the *Lib.tmpl should be fixed to describe correct dependencies (on
> Darwin it's strictly required) and Imakefiles should list the full
> dependencies too.
>
Hmm I forgot one point: sometimes you don't want to specify full
dependencies for a library since there can be 2 differents libs
capable to satisfy the dependency and you want to chose at application
link time.
The most current exemple is -lc_r vs -lc (or -lXThrstubs vs
-lpthreads) on some systems for threaded vs non-threaded applications.
Matthieu
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