On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Tim Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In regard to: Re: Multiple -rpaths, Ralf Wildenhues said (at 8:21am on > Nov...: > >> * Jan Engelhardt wrote on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 07:58:36AM CET: >>> >>> So I guess the reasons why distros remove the .la files is because >>> they are within the default search paths. >> >> Yes; and because some versions of libtool did the wrong thing wrt. >> multi-ABI systems like x86_64. (BTW if there are still bugs in this >> area, we'd appreciate reports.) > > I thought the reason that distros remove .la files is because some distro > vendors feel that libtool often establishes direct link dependencies that > aren't needed, and those direct dependencies can cause headaches during > upgrades?
I think this is a big one. Mandriva has a wiki page that has collected a lot of information on this topic: http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Overlinking They are apparently using a patch from Debian to keep libtool from linking all dependencies: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/libtool/current/SOURCES/libtool-1.5.24-link_all_deplibs.patch?view=markup -- Dan _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool