Re: Linking against indirect dependencies

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:37:38AM +0200, Szombathelyi_GyXrgy wrote:
> >On Mon, 24 May 2004, Albert Chin wrote:
> >
> >>dependency_libs doesn't contain just libraries. Maybe LDFLAGS as well,
> >>like -pthread. BTW, is it _really_ a problem to link against
> >>everything in dependency_libs? Indirectly, this is going to happen
> >>anyway even if libtool doesn't do this.
> >
> Yes, it's a problem, when someone wants to package his 
> application/library - most times a dependency hell will start. Did you 
> see the thread I linked above?
> 
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=108534182408921&w=2

Yes, I read the thread. I agree that libtool should perform the
optimization you want but I don't see it as something that is a
show-stopper.

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albert chin (address@hidden)