On Friday, 11 March 2005, at 16:15:55 (-0500), Mike Frysinger wrote: > i think we're talking about the .la files for the loaders, not the > main 'libImlib2.*' files ... in the normal course of things, if you > link against libImlib2.so and have it load say jpeg.so, jpeg.la and > jpeg.a are not needed ... the .la file is only used by libtool at > build time which is why you always want libImlib2.la ... > > i dont think it's possible at all to link against the loaders > directly is it ? so shouldnt the loader's .a and .la files be > prunned from the normal `make install` target ?
Imlib2 uses libltdl to load the loaders. libltdl is part of libtool, and libtool uses the .la files for dependency info and such. It would stand to reason, then, that the .la files would be used for loading the loaders. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "It is strange to be known so universally and yet be so lonely." -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
