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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