On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 01:24:52AM +0400, Alexey I. Froloff wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 04:54:40PM -0400, Brad Jorsch wrote: > > But if libexample links against libfoobar, is there necessarily a need > > to have libfoobar-dev installed in order to build and link against > > libexample? > You'll need libfoobar-dev if libexample uses something defined in > libfoobar's headers (and therefore example.h includes foobar.h), > like structures or enums OR you are linking statically with > libexample. You don't need libfoobar-dev if your program doesn't > use libfoobar directly and libexample is linked against > libfoobar.
Quite so. And the choice before us is whether we want to force the former when libbsd is used for strlcpy/strlcat, or provide pass-through functions to do the latter. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [email protected].
