On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Howard Chu wrote:
Yeah, I recall noticing all this in the past. That's why I usually delete .la files after build time and make sure they never get installed. On platforms where the dependent shared libraries are already listed inside a shared library's dynamic loader section, all of this .la stuff is just wasted effort (and time). So far I only see .la files being useful when statically linking, since the .a archives don't include their dependency info. It would have been smarter for libtool to just store whatever it wanted to record as a stub file inside the .a, IMO.
I suspect that the strange search for a ".a" file is occuring due to libltdl's "preopen" loader, which likely gets executed first. However, it could be something else since I understand that AIX can open shared .a files. I agree that explicit loading of these many dependency libraries is often not necessary. The modules for my package are ready to go as installed (fully linked) and a dlopen() is all that is needed.
I'll keep fiddling away until I find the cause ... Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
