Paul Wise wrote: > Just so you know, Debian is removing all .la files where possible or > emptying dependency_libs where not possible: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00783.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/08/threads.html#00217 > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/thrd2.html#00783 > > Would it be possible to implement dependency_libs_shared or similar in > libtool? More information about this idea is here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/08/msg00218.html > > This would allow static linking to continue, but also remove many > unneeded dependencies.
I don't understand what the proposed dependency_libs_shared would be for. dependency_libs contains the dependencies of a library. These are needed when linking statically. These are also needed when linking dynamically, but only on certain systems (they are not needed on normal linux systems). I think the proper way to solve this is to not link to dependency_libs when linking dynamically on systems where it is not needed to link to those. I haven't seen any correctly working patches that implement this. -- Anssi Hannula _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool