On Tue, 05 Oct 2010 21:59:41 +0200
Luca Barbato <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Great! It should be easy for you to fix it to only specify direct
> > link dependencies then, thus solving the underlying problem in one
> > place rather than working around it by fixing thousands of
> > individual packages.
> 
> Sadly that would be already partially fixed by as-needed

as-needed fixes nothing. It works around some things, and introduces
some fairly icky problems as consequences. See the deleted comments on
Diego's blog posts for details.

> the problem is that libtool mangles also library search paths when
> using .la files and that breaks in a number of situations we have in
> some sort of normal uses of Gentoo.

Ah, so you'll be giving us a patch to test for that too, right? Fixing
the actual problem, rather than adding workarounds to a thousand or so
packages...

Good to see we're finally looking at addressing the root cause in one
place rather than trying to modify the entire tree.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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