Re: Libtool update for slink?

["Jules Bean" <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk>]

--On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 4:38 pm -0400 "Ossama Othman"
<othman@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu> wrote: 

> Hi,
> 
>> We've been sticking with 1.0h because the upstream libtool author
>> refuses to support creating shared libraries that are dynamically
>> linked with other shared libraries, and that functionality is required
>> for dependancies to work under Debian.
> 
> Does 1.0h support dynamically linking with other shared libraries?  Would
> you happen to know why he "refuses to support creating shared libraries 
> that are dynamically linked with other shared libraries?"

Have a look at 

http://www.profitpress.com/libtool/deplibs.html

(Also, I have noticed Gordon read -devel in the past, so maybe he'll reply
himself).

As you can see from that page, it is a complex situation.

Jules

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