[haiku-development] Re: libtool link_all_deplibs

  • From: Jérôme Duval <jerome.duval@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 07:21:18 +0200

2014-09-02 8:57 GMT+02:00 Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>:
> On 01.09.2014 22:54, Jérôme Duval wrote:
>>
>> at the moment we configure libtool with link_all_deplibs = yes.
>> This has the consequence that we link a program against each
>> dependencies of a shared library: SDL_image for instance, and each of
>> the libraries that depend on it, libjpeg, etc..
>> Haikuporter detects that and says we should declare the dependencies.
>> This can in the long term be a difficult to maintain correct
>> dependencies on applications using some "interface" libraries.
>>
>> Question: is this something that should be changed? For Haiku itself?
>> For  Haikuports only?
>
>
> This entry might just have been copied from another OS's (BeOS) settings or
> its meaning may have been misunderstood. If it means what you say, I think
> we should indeed change it.

I think it worths a try at least. Though what it does now might be
what we want for cross-builds and static builds.

Bye,
Jérôme

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