Hi folks, Last March, Scott James Remnant put together a patch which fixed libtool to not gratuitously add indirect library dependencies to the linker line when doing shared linking on Linux. I was distraught to learn from him just yesterday that this patch was never actually accepted upstream. We've been using it to good effect for the past year in Debian, and I was fully under the impression that I could look forward to this change streamlining our Debian development processes as more and more software began to use it upstream, reducing the need to recompile software linked to libraries it shouldn't have been linked to. Evidently, this is not the case.
I can find only one very short thread <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2004-03/msg00111.html> about this patch in the libtool-patches archive, which doesn't appear to include much discussion. Can someone explain to me what the rationale was for rejecting this patch, so that I can address those reasons? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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