Re: [Plplot-devel] Unnecessary library linkage

2011-11-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-11-24 12:11-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > I will now move on [from C and C++] to other languages to see how far I can > get with > non-transitive linking. As of revision 12045 I have gotten pretty far. I have completed a NON_TRANSITIVE implementation (both for CMake and our *.pc files use

Re: [Plplot-devel] Unnecessary library linkage

2011-11-24 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 10:17:42AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2011-11-24 14:24- Andrew Ross wrote: > > > With Ubunutu 10.04 LTS (from last year) example 17 compiles fine with > > -DNON_TRANSITIVE=ON. With the latest Debian unstable I get the same > > error as Orion. This is clearly a featur

Re: [Plplot-devel] Unnecessary library linkage

2011-11-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-11-24 10:17-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > Hi Andrew: > > I am going to leave it to you to correct x17.cc in case there are > more issues Debian unstable detects with the C++ examples. > > Today, I plan to expand use of NON_TRANSITIVE to languages other than > C++. I will start with C (i.e.,

Re: [Plplot-devel] Unnecessary library linkage

2011-11-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-11-24 14:24- Andrew Ross wrote: >>> Apparently that error is caught on Fedora but not Debian stable for >>> reasons I don't understand. I wonder if it is also caught on >>> Debian testing, recent Ubuntu, etc., i.e., I wonder if Debian stable >>> is out of step with modern distribution

Re: [Plplot-devel] Unnecessary library linkage

2011-11-24 Thread Andrew Ross
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 01:16:06AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2011-11-24 07:37- Andrew Ross wrote: > > >> Orion, could you answer the question that occurred by one of the > >> posters in the "transitive linking topics" thread on the CMake list > >> about why rpmlint is complaining about thi

Re: [Plplot-devel] Unnecessary library linkage

2011-11-24 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-11-24 07:37- Andrew Ross wrote: >> Orion, could you answer the question that occurred by one of the >> posters in the "transitive linking topics" thread on the CMake list >> about why rpmlint is complaining about this "formal" overlinking >> issue? I responded at the time by some spec