Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> writes: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> 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. > Relying on the OS's implicit dependency features seems to be an approach > which is fraught with peril. Relying on the dynamic linker to resolve implicit dependencies is the only way that it's really feasible to maintain a distribution the size of Debian. Otherwise, your shared library dependencies get so entangled that it's extremely difficult to correctly handle transitions. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
