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From: | Anssi Hannula |
Subject: | Re: removal of .la files from Debian and a possible solution to the libtool shared libs problem |
Date: | Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:46:12 +0300 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090815) |
Paul Wise wrote: > Just so you know, Debian is removing all .la files where possible or > emptying dependency_libs where not possible: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/msg00783.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/08/threads.html#00217 > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/08/thrd2.html#00783 > > Would it be possible to implement dependency_libs_shared or similar in > libtool? More information about this idea is here: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/08/msg00218.html > > This would allow static linking to continue, but also remove many > unneeded dependencies. I don't understand what the proposed dependency_libs_shared would be for. dependency_libs contains the dependencies of a library. These are needed when linking statically. These are also needed when linking dynamically, but only on certain systems (they are not needed on normal linux systems). 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. -- Anssi Hannula
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