Re: Changes in handling library dependencies
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 03:34:29PM +0100, Ronald van Loon wrote:
> program needs on the command line. While it may be true that it is
> sufficient to be *dependent* only on imlib, it is still necessary to
> specify all those other implicit libraries to the linker. The linker is
> not smart enough to follow all dependencies that stem from linking to a
> library.
Other people have already pointed out that this isn't true.
> What the linker needs is a list of all the files it needs to fixup the
> symbol table. It finds those in a .lib file that is present for every .so
> file.
That isn't true either. There are no .lib files on linux, or on most (any?)
other unix platforms. Perhaps you're thinking of windows?
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